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I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place.
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You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest.
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I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
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If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.
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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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People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.
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It is not enough that we do our best sometimes we must do what is required.
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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.
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The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.
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Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
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All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.
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Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.
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The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.
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The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.
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I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.
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Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
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America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.
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