"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
-Winston Churchill
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"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.“
-Winston Churchill
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"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."
-Richard Cobden
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