The British nation is unique in this respect. They — Winston Churchill
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941 #3287 Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
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It may almost be said, “Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.”
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. speech at Harvard, 6 September 1943, in Onwards to Victory (1944)
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island…
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