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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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Even fools are right sometimes.
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Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.
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... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
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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 greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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We must have a better word than prefabricated, why not ready-made?
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No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.
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There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back.
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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
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Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.
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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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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
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I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
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There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.
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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
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When danger is far off we may think of our weakness when it is near we must not forget our strength.
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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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The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.
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