In the words of Winston Churchill:
The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.
The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.
If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.
You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.
If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.
Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.
To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.
Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.
I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.
Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.
Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.
Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.
There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.
I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.
Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.
It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.
Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.
I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.
When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.
One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.
It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.
I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.
Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.
You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.
One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.
A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.
If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
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