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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.
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The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.
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If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.
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There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.
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Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.
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It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.
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This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors
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The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.
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Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
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Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.
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To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.
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In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
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[Magna Carta provided] a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.
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We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.
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Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.
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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
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I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.
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It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
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