Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph…

Winston Churchill
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Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields. ✨ Winston Churchill (1986). The Gathering Storm, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields. ✨ Winston Churchill (1986). The Gathering Storm, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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