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When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
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There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.
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No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.
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I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.
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I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I'd go out to the Front at once.
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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice I consider the real vice is making losses.
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The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.
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Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
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Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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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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