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I have worked very hard with Nehru. I told him he should be the light of Asia, to show all those millions how they can shine out, instead of accepting the darkness of Communism.
A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory.... From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.
We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilisation will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the Great Germanic nation.
Fascism and Communism... Polar opposites—no, polar the same!"
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
The Second World War (book series) (1948)
The atomic bomb is the Second Coming in Wrath.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
The Second World War (book series) (1948)
When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
The Second World War (book series) (1948)
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.
I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.
The Second World War (1939)
Someone once said that history is written by the victors. He probably was not the greatest of all victors, if only because his name has been utterly forgotten.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956)
To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.
The Second World War (1939)
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending--sit down.
No, bury them in caves and cellars. None must go. We are going to beat them.
The Second World War (1939)
Make your minds perfectly clear that if ever you let loose upon us again a general strike, we will loose upon you — another "British Gazette."
We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.
The Second World War (1939)
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all Parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
The contrast between the morals at the centre of power and those practiced by wide communities in many subject lands presented problems of ever growing unrest.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956)