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CHURCHILL THE CHARACTER
"From his youth up Mr. Churchill has loved with all his heart, with all his mind, with all his soul, and
with all his strength, three things; war, politics and himself. He loved war for its dangers, he loves
politics for the same reason, and himself he has always loved for the knowledge that his mind is
dangerous - dangerous to his enemies, dangerous to his friends, dangerous to himself. I can think of
no man I ever met who would so quickly and so bitterly eat his heart out in Paradise."
- F.S Oliver, English Publicist
"Despite all the beautiful words, we have infinitely less justification for this war than the previous
one. This time we and France set out to stiffen the back of Poland in its resistance to Germany's
demands, certainly not out of any love for Poland, but rather in an attempt to check the increasing
power of Germany. In this way, we, together with France, wanted to maintain ascendancy on the
continent." - The Spectator, January 22nd 1940
"The German people, together with the so-called dictatorships and totalitarian countries, of course,
form the great obstacle to Britain in her victorious career towards world domination. As the methods
of peaceful propaganda that the British Government previously employed did not prove sufficient for
the refutation of the thesis of German intellectual equality of rights, Britain resorted to war. As the
Great War had failed to realize Britain's ambition, the German nation was now to be utterly
destroyed." - Sidney Rogerson, The Next War
"Britain was taking advantage of the situation to go to war against Germany because the Reich had
become too strong and had upset the European balance. To correct the fundamental trouble, from
Britain's point of view, Germany, after her defeat, must be weakened as a protective measure. No
morality enters into the matter, only consideration of power politics and British survival."
- Ralph Franklin Keeling
"The English would never have contrived World War Two if they had not been sure of Roosevelt's
help.... what is the net result? First, the Asiatic barbarians, held at bay since 1683, have been let loose
in Western Europe...." - H.L Mencken, Life Magazine, August 5th 1946, p.46
"This (the American declaration of war) is what I dreamed of, aimed at and worked for and now it has
come to pass." - Winston Churchill, 15th February 1942
"England is fighting to preserve the balance of power for this reason and no other.... in the general
assumption, that Germany began this war in order to rule the world is, in our opinion false. Germany
wanted to be a world power, but world power is not the same as world domination."
- The Nineteenth Century, London, September 1939
"We never thought of making a separate peace even in the years when we were all alone and could
easily have made one without serious loss to the British Empire and largely at your expense."
- Churchill letter to Joseph Stalin, 24th January 1944
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