Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, on
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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
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Future   
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We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
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Motivational   
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Source: BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941
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Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
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Perseverance   
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Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
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Life   
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
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Honor   
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Source: speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940
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Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
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War   
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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
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Military   
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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.
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Victory   
Survival   
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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
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Democracy   
Civilization   
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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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Courage   
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
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Courage   
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It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.
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History   
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Survival   
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Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
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Wisdom   
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Vices   
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Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
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Military   
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There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
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Lies   
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We will have no truce or parlay with you [Hitler], or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best.
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Military   
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
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Marriage   
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