“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, 'it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

— Winston S. Churchill

In Great Contemporaries, "Alfonso XIII" (1937).
The 1930s

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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But side by side with these customs, necessary to the life of societies and the preservation of the race, other desires, other passions, and therefore other habits and customs, are evolved in human association. The desire to dominate others and impose one's own will upon them; the desire to seize upon the products of the labor of a neighboring tribe; the desire to surround oneself with comforts without producing anything, while slaves provide their master with the means of procuring every sort of pleasure and luxury — these selfish, personal desires give rise to another current of habits and customs.