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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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The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.
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Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.
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If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
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When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
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It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.
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The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.
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My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
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Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.
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A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
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[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.
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