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  •  Obstructionist?? (4.00 / 5)

    Who the fuck cares if the vermin think we're "obstructionists?" I'm positive Hitler considered Churchill an "obstructionist." We're in the fight for our lives, our children's future, and the future of this country as a representative democracy. You're goddamn straiight, we're "obstructionists."

    Here are a few, choice quotes from old Winnie...


    I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.

    You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.

    You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs - Victory in spite of all terrors - Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.

    Winston Churchill, May 13th, 1940


    Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.

    We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, 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, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

    Winston Churchill, June 4th, 1940


    Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

    Winston Churchill, October 29th, 1941

    by jakethomson on Sat Mar 12, 2005 at 06:56:36 PM PDT

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    •  Good Old W.C Fields. I Mean Winnie. (none / 0)

      "An iron curtain has descended across Europe"

      "..but in the morning I'll be sober. Now lets fuck."

      I'm unsure of the last one. I should google it.

      Think he might have proposed legislation from time to time. Maybe. I'll google it.

      by HL Mungo on Sat Mar 12, 2005 at 08:02:46 PM PDT

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      •  Odds are (4.00 / 2)

        Winnie was having one of his famously cordial NOT chats with Lady Astor. As I recall the exchange went something like this:

        Lady Astor: Sir Winston, you are drunk. Very, very, drunk.

        Sir Winnie: I am indeed quite drunk madam. And you are ugly, very, very ugly. The differance is, in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly.

        In another exchange Lady Astor said something like: If you were my husband, I'd put poison in your tea.

        To which Winston replied: And if I were your husband madam, I'd drink it.

        by jakethomson on Sat Mar 12, 2005 at 10:14:25 PM PDT

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