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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'
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If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both
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We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
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Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.
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Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.
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What is a fine person or a beauteous face, Unless deportment give them decent grace Blessed with all other requisites to please, To want the striking elegance of ease Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill Of moving gracefully, or standing still.
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Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.
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Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.
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How often in life must one be content with what one can get!
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I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.
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There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.
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I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon
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Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?
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It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
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I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.
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You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem it is they who made it famous.
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It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.
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In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.
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Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.
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