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No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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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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Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.
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There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back.
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I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same.
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There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.
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There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.
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We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity.
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I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.
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Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.
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Old men make war, young men fight and die
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There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.
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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
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The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.
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I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.
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The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
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Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.
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My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
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... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.
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I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.
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We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.
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