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- So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 12, 1936
- Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), (attributed)
- Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech in November 1942
- From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech in March 1946
- Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Radio speech, 1941
- One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), Autobiography (1977)
- The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Flying Inn (1914)
- It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Scandal of Father Brown (1935)
- I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), O Pioneers! (1913)
- Once in the racket you're always in it.
- Al Capone (1899 - 1947), Quoted in the Philidelphia Public Ledger, 1929
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