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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
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Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
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The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.
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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
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Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.
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My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.
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I myself find waiting more tiring than action.
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It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear it springs from hope as well as from fear where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.
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I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated we should probably make another set of mistakes.
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In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.
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We must build a kind of United States of Europe.
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Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.
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When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.
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