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Book: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
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  1. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    Sherwood, Franklin Roosevelt's speechwriter and biographer, wrote that although Churchill's "consumption of alcohol… continued at quite regular intervals through most of his waking hours," it did so "without visible effect on his health or mental processes. Anyone who suggested he became befuddled with drink obviously never had to become involved in an argument with him on some factual problem late at night…." Churchill's drinking habits, Sherwood wrote, were "unique" and his capacity "Olympian."18 Despite his prolonged, consistent, and prodigious consumption of alcohol, Churchill was not a drunk. But neither was he a moderate social drinker,
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  2. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    A big blow came in June 1962, when Churchill slipped and fell in his suite at the Hôtel de Paris. While drifting in and out of consciousness, Churchill told Montague Brown that he wanted to die in England. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dispatched an RAF Comet to bring the Great Man home. The press expected the worst. Montague Browne believed he would have to instruct the Duke of Norfolk to set Operation Hope Not-Churchill's state funeral-in motion. On the flight to London, Churchill, heavily sedated, awoke, and muttered to Montague Browne: "I don't think I'll go back to that place, it's unlucky. First Toby, and then this." Montague Browne had forgotten Toby, the budgerigar, but Churchill had not. The body was frail, but not the wit.
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  3. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Then, after calling
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  4. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because . . . it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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  5. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    squeezed the present for all it was worth. He believed meaning is found only in the present, for the past is gone and the future looms indeterminate if it arrives at all.
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    If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future,
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  7. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
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  8. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    Please understand that we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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  9. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
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  10. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    His effect on men is one of interest and curiosity, not of admiration and loyalty. His power is the power of gifts, not character. Men watch him, but do not follow him.
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