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Statesmen are not called upon only to settle easy questions. These often settle themselves. It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself.

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

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