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"An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it."
"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."
"You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory."
"The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure."
"Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn."
"There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise."
"May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism."
"Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by."
"There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher."
"Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances."
"Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room."
"The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired."
"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 this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity."
"This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline."
"It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them."
"Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend."
"The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be."
"In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it."
"There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king."
"There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews."