back"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
"The farther backwards you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
"If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce."
"The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've exhausted all the alternatives."
"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
"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 the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing 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."
"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." (refer to the Battle of Britain's airmen).
"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we will not put."
"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result."
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism."
"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed."
"My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked."
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