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"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. Never run away from anything. Never!"
"Sure I am of this, you only have to endure to conquer"
"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing after they've tried everything else"
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something in life."
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
"If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire."
"If [Nazi leader] Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can."
“When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed...why should we fear for our future?”
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: “This was their finest hour.”
“The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.”
“In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.”
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning"
“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival."
“This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
