For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Churchill

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1599 Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
1734 Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
1560 A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
1624 We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
1693 Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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