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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
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With integrity, nothing else counts. Without integrity, nothing else counts.
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The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.
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I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.
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We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
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I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.
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We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.
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History is written by the victors.
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.
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Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?
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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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There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.
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It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.
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I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.
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Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.
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Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
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I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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