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The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.
Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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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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We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations
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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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Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.
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Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.
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It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.
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Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.
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When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!
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It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own
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The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.
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For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.
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I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.
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The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.
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