"I will begin by saying what everybody..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.
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More on Defeat
“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.”
“Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.”
“I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.”
More on Disaster
“Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.”
“The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.”
“All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.”