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Wednesday 14 February 2018

Quotes 15 Feb 18

If the U.S.A. is going to submit to conquest as well, there is nothing to do for it but to die fighting, but we must above all die fighting and have the satisfaction of killing someone else first.- Churchill mid June 1940 in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p104

If this long island story of ours is to end at last let it end only when each of us lies choking in his own blood on the ground. - Churchill to the War Cabinet 28 May 1940, quoted in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p97

A husband must lead his wife not be mothered by her. He must serve her for her good not act like she is his servant. He must be strong but tender with her. He must love her even when she's unlovable. He must make her his primary ministry.- Gavin Peacock@GPeacock8

Every Christian needs to be reminded of who they are. A form of spiritual amnesia takes place while we sleep at night, and it is vital that we begin each new day reminding ourselves of who we are.- Derek Thomas@DerekWHThomas

By law every householder in Massachusetts (1659) had to pay a tax for the church or meeting house and by law have to go there for  two hours twice on Sundays and for a two hour lecture in the week. - The Book of Books,Melvyn Bragg, p.60

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