paedco
07-30-2004, 16:36
QUOTES FROM THE PAST THAT BEAR ON THE PRESENT:
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL”
“We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind, we have before us many, many long months of struggle and suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory - Victory - at all costs, victory, in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”
“You may imagine how deeply I feel my own responsibility to all these people; my responsibility to bear my part in bringing them safely out of this long, stern, scowling valley through which we are marching, and not to demand from them the sacrifices and exertions in vain.”
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.”
“If we quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
“Here let me say how proud we ought to be, young and old alike, to live in this tremendous, thrilling, formative epoch in the human story, and how fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.”
“Let us rise to the full level of our duty and of our opportunity, and let us thank God for the spiritual rewards He has granted for all forms of valiant and faithful service.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.”
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN:
“Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.”
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL”
“We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind, we have before us many, many long months of struggle and suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory - Victory - at all costs, victory, in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”
“You may imagine how deeply I feel my own responsibility to all these people; my responsibility to bear my part in bringing them safely out of this long, stern, scowling valley through which we are marching, and not to demand from them the sacrifices and exertions in vain.”
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.”
“If we quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
“Here let me say how proud we ought to be, young and old alike, to live in this tremendous, thrilling, formative epoch in the human story, and how fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.”
“Let us rise to the full level of our duty and of our opportunity, and let us thank God for the spiritual rewards He has granted for all forms of valiant and faithful service.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.”
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN:
“Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.”