There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best ... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contrad... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerit... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The English never draw a line without blurring it. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their wil... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never -- in anything great or small, large or pet... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Responsibility is the price of greatness. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at ... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no such thing as a good tax. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Opening amenities are often opening inanities. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit t... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponen... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event ... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL