It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.
Winston ChurchillThe tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.
Winston ChurchillNowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.
Winston ChurchillThe United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.
Winston ChurchillMy mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.
Winston ChurchillNothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.
Winston ChurchillThere are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Winston ChurchillThis revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.
Winston ChurchillSure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
Winston ChurchillThe Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.
Winston ChurchillNever does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.
Winston ChurchillIn Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.
Winston Churchill... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.
Winston ChurchillA man must choose his own way of life, andโฆit is only by following out oneโs own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.โ [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]
Winston ChurchillDemocracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.
Winston ChurchillA single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.
Winston ChurchillPersonally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.
Winston ChurchillStrategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.
Winston ChurchillFrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Winston ChurchillIn the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.
Winston ChurchillIt is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.
Winston ChurchillNo more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.
Winston ChurchillFrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.
Winston ChurchillIn Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.
Winston ChurchillA heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.
Winston ChurchillScience unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.
Winston ChurchillHow many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.
Winston ChurchillI have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.
Winston ChurchillThe struggle which is now beginning between the Zionist and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people.
Winston ChurchillWhen I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston ChurchillNot to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.
Winston ChurchillDiplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
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