QUOTES FROM WINSTON CHURCHILL….SEE NOTE FROM GERALD WALPIN
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2015/01/27/is-the-world-reliving-churchills-history-of-the-run-up-to-wwii-these-12-passages-suggest-we-might-be/
Gerald Walpin former Inspector General is author of :The Supreme Court vs. The Constitution
Don’t all of these sound applicable to the Gathering Storm of what the western world faces now and in the next few years, if we do not face up to the enemy that has said they want to destroy us? These quotations are from Churchill’s “Gathering Storm” (thanks to the Blaze), and certainly demonstrate the Churchillian lesson of history applicable to current issues and threats.I offer you the following quotations for your consideration: G.W.
Is the world reliving Churchill’s history of the run-up to WWII? These 12 passages suggest we might be.
1. “We are not the same country we used to be …, only twenty years ago.”
2. “[M]ighty forces were adrift, the void was open, and into that void after a pause there strode a maniac[al group] of ferocious genius, the repository and expression of the most virulent hatreds that have ever corroded the human breast.”
3. “Thus were set on foot kindred movements which were destined soon to plunge the world into even more hideous strife, which none can say has ended their destruction.”
4. “The crimes of the vanquished [assuming in the end we win] find their background and their explanation, thought not, of course, their pardon, in the follies of the victors. Without these follies crime would have found neither temptation nor opportunity.”
5. “Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into its hands for the first time the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its own extermination.”
6. “All this time the Allies possessed the strength, and the right, to prevent any visible or tangible [substantial Muslim terrorist organization]”
7. “The greatest upheavals in history would have been unthinkable had it not been for the driving force of fanatical and hysterical passions. Nothing could have been effected by the bourgeois virtues of peace and order.”
8. “While these deadly changes were taking place in [the Middle East and Europe our government] felt found to enforce…the severe reductions and restrictions which the financial crisis had imposed upon our already modest armaments, and steadfastly closed their eyes and ears to the disquieting symptoms.”
9. “It was like being smothered by a feather-bed.”
10. “It is difficult to find a parallel to the unwisdom of the British and weakness of the French Governments [in their acceptance of immigrants in a multi-cultural retention status]…Nor can the United States escape the censure of history.”
11. “Delight in smooth-sound platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obviously lack of intellectual vigour…strong and violent pacifism…played a definite part in the unleashing on the world of horrors and miseries…”
12. “Wars come very suddenly.”
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