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| 31. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." |
| 32. We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job. |
| 33. 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. |
| 34. 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." |
| 35. 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. |
| 36. 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. |
| 37. It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. |
| 38. I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. |
| 39. 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.' |
| 40. 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. |
| 41. 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. |
| 42. 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. |
| 43. 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'. |
| 44. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. |
| 45. For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. |
| 46. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. |
| 47. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. |
| 48. We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. |
| 49. 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. |
| 50. 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. |
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