“The plot is certainly sensational, but it hardly represents what actually happened. It is difficult to believe that the European emigrants by whom America has been populated took away with them all the virtues and left behind them all the vices of the races from which they had sprung; or that a few generations of residence on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean is sufficient to create an order of beings definitely superior in morals, in culture, and in humanity to their prototypes in Europe. The American”
― The World Crisis, Vol. 4
― The World Crisis, Vol. 4
“The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.”
― Churchill: The Power of Words: His remarkable life recounted through his writings and speeches
― Churchill: The Power of Words: His remarkable life recounted through his writings and speeches
“He mobilised the English language and sent it into battle.”
― Churchill: The Power of Words: His remarkable life recounted through his writings and speeches
― Churchill: The Power of Words: His remarkable life recounted through his writings and speeches
“We, in short, propose to tax luxuries, monopolies, and superfluities, but we scrupulously avoid taxing the necessaries of life.”
― Churchill: The Power of Words: His remarkable life recounted through his writings and speeches
― Churchill: The Power of Words: His remarkable life recounted through his writings and speeches
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