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“For the English aristocracy, the horse was a symbol of social, political, and economic dominance. Those who rode and those who owned horses viewed society as composed of “a small, select aristocracy, booted and spurred to ride, and a large, dim mass, born, saddled and bridled to be ridden.”5 At Eton, Randolph”
― Jennie: The Life of the American Beauty Who Became the Toast--and Scandal--of Two Continents, Ruled an Age and Raised a Son—Winston Churchill—Who Shaped History
― Jennie: The Life of the American Beauty Who Became the Toast--and Scandal--of Two Continents, Ruled an Age and Raised a Son—Winston Churchill—Who Shaped History
“he had long understood that Britain’s future largely depended on strong ties with the United States. ‘If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail. I therefore preach continually the doctrine of the fraternal association of our two peoples . . . for the sake of service to mankind and for the honour that comes to those who faithfully serve great causes.’186 It was to be a doctrine that he continued to proclaim for the rest of his life. Finally, on 8 September 1943, Italy surrendered. For a brief moment, the garden path looked as if it was lined with”
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings,’ he said in a debate in October. ‘The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
“it should be on an issue directly between us and them.”7 America should not be tied to Allied war goals, whatever their merits; Americans should not be asked to die for other people’s causes.”
― A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
― A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
“To those isolationists who believed the United States should not have gone to war, he said, The price of greatness is responsibility. If the people of the United States had continued in a mediocre station, struggling with the wilderness, absorbed in their own affairs, and a factor of no consequence in the movement of the world, they might have remained forgotten and undisturbed beyond their protecting oceans: but one cannot rise to be in many ways the leading community in the civilized world without being involved in its problems, without being convulsed by its agonies and inspired by its causes.184 Churchill had signed the contract for his History of the English-Speaking Peoples as long ago as 1932, and had been making speeches on the subject”
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
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