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While driving, I've taken to listening to books on tape. I've never been a fan of the idea of listening to fiction while I drive, so on my way home from Homecoming, I stopped by Half-Price Books. There, mixed amongst too many self-help books and romance novels (the very idea of being read a romance novel sends a wholly unpleasant chill down my spine) was Blood, Toil, Sweat, and Tears: The Dire Warning. You may know of my borderline obsession with WWII and so are not surprised that this audio-book about what a single phrase indicates about Winston Churchill would appeal to me.
It was great. Shortest five hour drive I've had in years. So, when I got home, I dropped by the library in Parkersburg. After spending twenty minutes looking futilely at the fiction I finally located their nonfiction section. (It was on a different floor. Yes, it makes total sense.) It took me nearly a week to work through Wings Like Eagles which is about the British Royal Air Force and Sir Hugh Dowding's role in the Battle of Britain. (It was, by the way, fantastic and I would recommend it to anyone.) The point of this rambling is to say, all the Churchill speechifying has me looking up quotes.
I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it. - Winston Churchill
The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to. Douglas Adams
Now, I always liked you Byron. But you never knew when to shut up. Even bad men love their mamas. Ben Wade, 3:10 to Yuma
The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant. That few stood against many. Leonidas, 300
Churchill was not the man who won World War II, but he was the man who didn't lose it. John Lukacs, Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat
Life has a way of making the foreseeable never happen and the unforeseeable that which your life becomes. Appaloosa
Walter, you're wonderful in a loathesome sort of way. Hildy Johnson, His Girl Friday
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 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!" - Winston Churchill
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
It was great. Shortest five hour drive I've had in years. So, when I got home, I dropped by the library in Parkersburg. After spending twenty minutes looking futilely at the fiction I finally located their nonfiction section. (It was on a different floor. Yes, it makes total sense.) It took me nearly a week to work through Wings Like Eagles which is about the British Royal Air Force and Sir Hugh Dowding's role in the Battle of Britain. (It was, by the way, fantastic and I would recommend it to anyone.) The point of this rambling is to say, all the Churchill speechifying has me looking up quotes.
I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it. - Winston Churchill
The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to. Douglas Adams
Now, I always liked you Byron. But you never knew when to shut up. Even bad men love their mamas. Ben Wade, 3:10 to Yuma
The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant. That few stood against many. Leonidas, 300
Churchill was not the man who won World War II, but he was the man who didn't lose it. John Lukacs, Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat
Life has a way of making the foreseeable never happen and the unforeseeable that which your life becomes. Appaloosa
Walter, you're wonderful in a loathesome sort of way. Hildy Johnson, His Girl Friday
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 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!" - Winston Churchill
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
Giuseppe Garibaldi