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It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.
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I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.
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[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.
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When I look round to see how we can win the war, I see that there is only one sure path . . . and that is absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland.
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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
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It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.
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There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them.
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No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.
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It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.
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We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.
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Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.
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