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"Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar."
"Two nations divided by a common language."
"Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die."
"Never give up. Never give up. Never give up."
"Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe."
"Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people.""
"There but for the grace of God, goes God."
"It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat."
"If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us."
"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it."
"What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime."
"A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]"
"I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic."
"Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard."
"The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen."
"If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future."
"Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves."
"With integrity, nothing else counts. Without integrity, nothing else counts."
"There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing."
"India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator."