The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes…

Winston Churchill
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The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due. ✨ Churchill: The Statesman as Artist. Book by David Cannadine, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
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