Questions tagged [winston-churchill]
For questions regarding the life and works of Winston Churchill, a British politician, speaker, and writer most notable for being the Prime Minister of England from 1940 - 1945.
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Interpretation of a Churchill quote
This isn't quite literature, but a quote from Winston Churchill:
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Is he referring to the fact that he will be writing a history of the time he ...
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Who first said this quote about how we only sleep safely because "rough men stand ready" to fight on our behalf?
One of my favorite quotes is Churchill's
"We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us."
But recently I found out that Orwell was attributed ...
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