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Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.
Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.
Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.
I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.
Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.
This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.
A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.
The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.
The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.
The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.
The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.
Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.
I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon
I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.
This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.
It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.
Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.
Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.
I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."
The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?
When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.
Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.
I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.
The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.