Category: Thought

“A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

“Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour!’”

“What is the state of Hancock’s finances?”

“Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.”

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”

“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.”

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”

“Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession.  I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”

“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”