Category: Thought

“The draft or draft registration destroys the very values our society is committed to defending.”

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”

“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.”