"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
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“It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.”
“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”
“The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.”
More on Politics
“I won't raise taxes, because I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes.”
“The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.”
“Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.”
More on History
“Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.”
“As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.”
“You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it.”