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The future though imminent is obscure.

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.

I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

There is no working middle course in wartime.

An iron curtain has descended over Europe.

Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.

There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Never give in, never give in, never give in.

It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

If you are young, and not liberal, then you don't have a heart. If you are old, and not conservative, then you don't have a brain.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

Never run away from anything. Never!

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

A sheep in sheep's clothing. [on Clement Attlee]

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

Is it possible to get another key? I think I've left mine in the room.

And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.

Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

If you destroy a free market you create a black market.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

If you're going to walk through hell, keep going.

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty ...

We get to make a living; we give to make a life.

Sunshine is my quest.

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

Islam is more dangerous in a man than rabies in a dog.

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

He is like a female llama surprised in her bath.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Dead birds don't fall out of their nests.

In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

The Fascists of the future will be the anti-fascists.

Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

I myself find waiting more tiring than action.

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.