From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.
Winston Churchill Quotes
Please be good enough to put your conclusions and recommendations on one sheet of paper in the very beginning of your report, so I can even consider reading it.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.
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.
A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
Churchill never minded contemplating the mystery of death. Once a friend inquired: “What makes you think you will reach the bar of Heaven?” He interjected with solemn assurance: “Surely the Almighty must observe the principles of English common law and consider a man innocent until proven guilty.”
At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist […]
The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: “China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it.” There’s another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modern – it dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: “The tail of China is large and will not […]
