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

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政治家所要处理的并不只是那些容易解决的问题。那些问题往往会自行解决。真正需要作出拯救世界的决定的，是在天平摇摆不定、分寸被迷雾笼罩之时。

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

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“Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.”

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