Verified Source: Winston Churchill — "Statesmen are not called upon…"

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政治家が求められるのは、容易な問題を解決することだけではない。そうした問題はしばしば自然に片が付く。釣り合いが揺らぎ、各要素の比率が霧に包まれて見えないところにこそ、世界を救う決断の機会が現れるのである。

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-Winston S. Churchill, 1948, The Second World War, Vol 1, p.284.

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