90130_ Report This Comment Date: July 20, 2006 06:39AM
Well spoken words by the best leader England ever had.
anonymous Report This Comment Date: July 20, 2006 04:53PM
He was PM of the United Kingdom (i.e England, Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland), not just England.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: July 20, 2006 05:23PM
and a fine one he was
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: July 20, 2006 05:52PM
he was a homo..
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: July 20, 2006 08:13PM
1605 you have sewn the wind,now you shall
reap the whirlwind! :p
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: July 20, 2006 08:16PM
He was a brilliant motivator and was
supremely intelligent on how to lift his
peoples spirits.Churchill and Hitler were both
incredible with their ability to make their
fellow countrymen beleive they could acheive
anything.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: July 20, 2006 08:18PM
One last thing.I think i skipped school on the
day when they taught that whole "I before E except
after C thing lol".
anonymous Report This Comment Date: July 20, 2006 10:04PM
"They sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind" (Hosea 8:7). =Sew= is
something quite different, 20644
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: July 21, 2006 02:29AM
o.k. i cheated on these:
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened
nations in their hour of peril.
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom,
justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will
stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path.
You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from
discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I
will not put.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- More quotations on: [Vices]
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant
ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he
excites among his opponents.
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the
others that have been tried.
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be
grasped one link at a time.
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and
hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who
embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will
encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the
signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of
unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away
from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly
and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being
taught.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of
enthusiasm.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the
fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense
and meaning.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is
half of them are true.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be
the thoughtless act of a single day.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the
government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: July 21, 2006 02:36AM
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the
lash.
(attributed)
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and
we will finish the job.
BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like
to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Hansard, June 10, 1941
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I
have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
Hansard, May 13, 1940
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin
and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has
been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other
forms that have been tried from time to time.
Hansard, November 11, 1947
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.
Hansard, November 12, 1936
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
My Early Life, 1930
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great
ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
on the eve of his 75th birthday
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his
devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'
quoted in Rudolf Flesch, ed., "The New Book of Unusual Quotations"
(NY: Harper & Row, 1966), p. 311
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a
mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian
national interest.
Radio speech, 1939
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.
Radio speech, 1941
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The
quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make
you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions
about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
Second World War (1948)
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything
else.
speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has
descended across the Continent.
Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in March 1946
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is,
perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Speech in November 1942
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened
nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll
forward.
speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or
petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield
to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Speech, 1941, Harrow School
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: July 21, 2006 04:23PM
what ever the wind he was gay..
anonymous Report This Comment Date: July 21, 2006 09:46PM
"what ever the wind he was gay"...and the evidence for that is..??
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: July 22, 2006 01:34PM
> Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that
anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he
will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the
signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of
unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
That should be repeated every morning to certain world leaders, who seem to have
forgotten history and are thus doomed to repeatit.
sunny_ Report This Comment Date: July 28, 2006 12:53AM
Just make sure he is told when the bombers are on the way ,so he can get outa
town.