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"Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked."
"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."
"The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences."
"Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm."
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
"Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm."
"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."
"Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality."
"Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them."
"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach."
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
"A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor."
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
"From 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."
"We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations"
"The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash."
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
"You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves."
"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash."
"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."