“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

—  Winston S. Churchill, book The Second World War

Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943 ( full text https://www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1941-1945-war-leader/the-price-of-greatness-is-responsibility, audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESiuSi8Qp9U). <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945)

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