When I look about me, I see everywhere hope, calm resolution, courage, enthusiasm to face all difficulties, to settle all problems. ... We do not anticipate, and we do not want, that any individuals should forget the land of their origin or their ancestors. Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.


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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sur...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful se...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
I am most anxious that in dealing with matters which every Member knows are extremely delicate matte...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. From Stettin in the Bal...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No fo...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
We have all seen with a sense of nausea the abject, squalid, shameless avowal made in the Oxford Uni...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals to...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull th...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in m...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
SIR CLAUS MOSER
The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anth...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK
University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing...
SIR PETER IMBERT
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH
When the critics come around it's always too late.
SIR SIDNEY NOLAN
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
SIR ALEC ISSIGONIS
There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the wor...
SIR PETER MEDAWAR
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
SIR NATHAN ROTHSCHILD
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
SIR RICHARD STEELE
I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect, I think he is a theatrical whore ...
SIR PETER HALL
Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
SIR JOHN DENHAM
Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by makin...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
Well languag'd Danyel.
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE
The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal car...
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave scho...
SIR WILLIAM HALEY
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they lea...
SIR WILLIAM HALEY
The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
SIR RICHARD STEELE
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an except...
SIR RICHARD STEELE
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT
Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.
SIR RICHARD HULL
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests wi...
SIR ARTHUR HELPS
Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH