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Crisis as Finest Hour Opportunity, Never Surrender Absolutism, Many Ideas Generate Few Good Ones
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“Be on your guard, because I am going to speak in French, a formidable undertaking and one which will put great demands on your friendship with Great Britain.” After the war, he addressed a French audience in English: “…
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"“Be on your guard, because I am going to speak in French, a formidable undertaking and one which will put great demands on your friendship with Great Britain.” After the war, he addressed a French audience in English: “I have often made speeches in French, but that was wartime, and I do not wish to subject you to the ordeals of darker days.”"
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
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Crisis as Finest Hour OpportunityNever Surrender AbsolutismMany Ideas Generate Few Good OnesWords as Weapons Before BulletsIntense Simplicities From ComplexitySelf-Deprecating Humor as DisarmamentDemocracy Despite Its FlawsFighting Nations Rise AgainSimplify Self Into SymbolMemorized Speech as Spontaneous PerformanceShort Words Over Long OnesAccountability Over Advisory Layers