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“Sir Winston’s Gettysburg essay…...is a fantasy which transcends all my objections to exploring the what-ifs and might-have-beens in that great war.”…
So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. So we go on preparing more months and years—precious, perhaps vital, to the greatness of Britain—for the locusts to eat. —Churchill, House of Commons, 12 November 1936
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