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There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.

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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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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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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.
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Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.
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When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task has been fulfilled, and that Iraq is an independent sovereign state. But this cannot be said while we are forced year after year to spend very large sums of money on helping the Iraqi government to defend itself and maintain order.
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Give us the tools, and we will finish the job
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Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.
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I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.
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We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.
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Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.
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What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are?
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In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.
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You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.
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Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.
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We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.
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When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!
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Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be for without victory, there is no survival.
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