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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.
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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]
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My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.
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I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.
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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
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Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.
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The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public out of doors, has never succeeded much in our small wisely-built chamber. To do any good you have got to get down to grips with the subject and in human touch with the audience.
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The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.
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Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.
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I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis it parts for the time with reality.
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If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.
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The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.
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Sunshine is my quest.
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They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.
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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
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Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.
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My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.
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There are bitter weeds in England.
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No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.
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As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
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