It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a
stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and
survival the twin brother of annihilation.
-- Winston Churchill - on the hydrogen bomb, 1955
stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and
survival the twin brother of annihilation.
-- Winston Churchill - on the hydrogen bomb, 1955
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- Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Sir Winston... - We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end,
we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas... - If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without
bloodshed;
if you will not fight when your victory will be sure... - To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day... - It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed
in doing what is necessary.
Sir Winston... - We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
Sir Winston... - Lady Nancy Astor:
"Winston, if you were my husband,
I'd put poison in your coffee." Winston Churchill:... - Lady Astor: "Mr. Churchill, you're drunk!"
Winston Churchill:
"Yes, and you, Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow, I shall... - My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had
to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874...
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- To share equal profits from unequal earnings..
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Dean (William R.) Inge (1860-1954),... - Silence is wonderful to listen to.
--
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) English novelist and... - Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage,
not a harbor." -... - The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate
things at their true worth. La... - Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a
criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.
Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976) German...
