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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.
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If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.
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Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
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I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis it parts for the time with reality.
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Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
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Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
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The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.
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There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.
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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
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Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.
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Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.
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My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
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The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.
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I am easily satisfied with the very best.
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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.
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What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.
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There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.
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