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" Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. "

Winston Churchill

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" Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. "

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" Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. "

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" The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. "

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" If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. "

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" An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. "

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" Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. "

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" If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire. "

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" Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. "

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