“We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.”
1940s, Victory broadcast (1945)
Context: We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.
A new era is upon us. Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
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Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter III, Some Implications Of The First Image, p. 69
1970s, Second Inaugural Address (1973)
Speech at Zurich University (September 19, 1946) ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/astonish.html) ( http://www.peshawar.ch/varia/winston.htm).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“But we can't go back. We can only go forward.”
Variant: One can never go back. One always has to move forward.
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Niafer, in Book Ten : At Manuel's Tomb, Ch. LXIX : Economics of Jurgen
The Silver Stallion (1926)
“We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.”
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“We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!”
“If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.”
About Adolf Eichmann's devotion. Quoted in "And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight" - Page 37 - by Jacob Robinson - Jews - 1965