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- .... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; "It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy." You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), 1940, in his first address as the newly appointed Prime Minister.
- Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?
- Howard Zinn
- I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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