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Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
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The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
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Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.
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How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.
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How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.
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When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.
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