If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them...let them be your friends.
Winston S. ChurchillYou see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. On all sides they are guarded by masses of armed men, cannons, aeroplanes, fortifications, and the like - they boast and vaunt themselves before the world, yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts; words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home - all the more powerful because forbidden - terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind. Cannons, airplanes, they can manufacture in large quantities; but how are they to quell the natural promptings of human nature, which after all these centuries of trial and progress has inherited a whole armoury of potent and indestructible knowledge?
Winston S. ChurchillBloodshed, gentlemen, no doubt is lamentable. I have seen some of it--more perhaps than many of those who talk about it with such levity. But there are worse things than bloodshed, even on an extreme scale. . . . The trampling down of law and order which, under the conditions of a civilised state, assure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--all this would be worse than bloodshed.
Winston S. ChurchillI know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed
Winston S. ChurchillMots clés depression
Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
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There are few words which are used more loosely than the word “Civilization.” What does it mean? It means a society based upon the opinion of civilians. It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained. That is Civilization—and in its soil grow continually freedom, comfort, and culture. When Civilization reigns, in any country, a wider and less harassed life is afforded to the masses of the people. The traditions of the past are cherished, and the inheritance bequeathed to us by former wise or valiant men becomes a rich estate to be enjoyed and used by all.
Winston S. ChurchillYou'll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Winston S. ChurchillL’influence de cette religion paralyse le développement social de ses fidèles Il n’existe pas de plus puissante force rétrograde dans le monde.Si la Chrétienté n’était protégée par les bras puissants de la Science, la civilisation de l’Europe moderne pourrait tomber, comme tomba celle de la Rome antique.
Winston S. ChurchillSo long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.
Winston S. ChurchillMots clés speech house-of-commons-6-dec-1946
Of course I'm an egoist. Where do you get if you aren't?
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