How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came u…

Winston Churchill
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How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave. ✨ Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963, Atheneum
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