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"This 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."
"One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible."
"Opening amenities are often opening inanities."
"This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting."
"Writing is an adventure."
"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."
"My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop."
"Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter."
"Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men."
"I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk."
"I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger."
"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."
"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."
"We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends."
"Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible."
"An iron curtain has descended over Europe."
"Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for.""
"Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose"
"Success is never final."
"He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath."