It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
Winston ChurchillRead
Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.
Interpretation
The American Civil War is viewed as a noble conflict with significant historical importance.
Winston Churchill reflects on the American Civil War as a monumental event in history. He suggests that despite the loss and turmoil it caused, the conflict was marked by its nobility and necessity in the pursuit of ideals, making it an important chapter in the narrative of America and its values.
In practice
During a history lecture on the significance of the Civil War.
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.
Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!
Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again enjoy for another 2,000 years. You could call them early feminists, if I may use a dirty word.
During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe.
My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.
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