Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant fact…

Winston Churchill
806 citations
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]
Love Time Truth
22

More Author Quotes

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the worl … ▶
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. ✨ The World Crisis. Volume I,
We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes. ✨ Radio broadcast to French people, 21 Oct. 1940
This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We mus … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes