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Winston Churchill
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There must be room in our army system for nearly everyone who is not grossly idle or grossly stupid.
— Officers and Gentlemen, The Saturday Evening Post, 29 December 1900.
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
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Lived 1874–1965, aged 91United Kingdom
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He held the line when Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany, turned speeches into weapons, and made stubbornness a national strategy. Churchill's wartime prime ministership — the cigar, the growl, the refusal to yield — became the template for what resolute leadership looks like under existential threat.
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Born into aristocratic wealth in Oxfordshire in 1874, Churchill joined the British Army at twenty-one, saw combat in India and the Boer War, and wrote his way into public notice as a war correspondent. Elected a Conservative MP in 1900, he switched to the Liberals in 1904, rose through Asquith's cabinet as Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty, then fell hard after the Dardanelles disaster sent him briefly to the trenches in 1915. He spent the 1920s as Chancellor under Baldwin, the 1930s out of power warning about Nazi rearmament while others looked away, and May 1940 back at the top…
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Winston Churchill
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How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
— The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (1899), Volume II pp. 248–250
Winston Churchill
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Every influence, every motive, that provokes the spirit of murder among men, impels these mountaineers to deeds of treachery and violence.
— The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter I
Winston Churchill
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Every tribesman has a blood feud with his neighbor.
— The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter I. MFF, pp.3-4. Churchill begins his 1898 book, The Story
Winston Churchill
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During the two years that the British flag had floated over Chakdara and the Malakand the trade of the Swat Valley had nearly doubled.
— The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter I MFF Chapter 1, pp.27-28
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