Winston Churchill Quotes, Strong Quotes, War Quotes

This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.

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Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

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They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.

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Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations.

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He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath.

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Old men make war, young men fight and die

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During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

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Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

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Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

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A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

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We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.

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For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

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Watch your thoughts, they become your words.

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A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.

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Never let a good crisis go to waste

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There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

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We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

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Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

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I drink and smoke and I am two hundred percent fit.

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