"The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form."
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"To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne."
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"Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture."
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"Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs."
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"The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last."
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"It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace."
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"The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure."
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"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all."
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"War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid."
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"The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable."
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"The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal."
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"I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine."
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"I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!"
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"The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India."
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"I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it."
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"I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing."
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"A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted."
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"England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war."
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"Nothing is won without enthusiasm."
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"An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters."
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