Winston Churchill Quotes, Memories Quotes, Book Quotes

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

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Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth.

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

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We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

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Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

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I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

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We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.

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We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

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No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

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There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.

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I am too busy. I have not time for worry.

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If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.

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Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.

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How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

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It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

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The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

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The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.

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One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

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If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

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What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

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