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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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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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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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I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place.
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I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.
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People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.
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An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.
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