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"There is none born wise." ~ Ptahhotpe, Maxims (24th century B.C.).
Churchill Quotes
"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." ~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British Prime Minister.
"The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age . . ." ~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), explaining what was at stake in the ensuing world war, June, 1940, in a speech to the House of Commons.
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." ~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), in a speech to the House of Commons on August 20, 1940, referring to the Royal Air Force pilots in the battle of Britain.
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and grwoing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender.” ~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), speech to the House of Commons, June 4, 1940.
"Wars are not won by evacuations" ~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965).
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” ~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), attributed.
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