“Eaten bread is soon forgotten. Dangers which are warded off by effective precautions and foresight are never even remembered.”

— Winston S. Churchill, book The World Crisis

The World Crisis, 1911–1914 : Chapter XVII (The Grand Fleet and the Submarine Alarm), Churchill, Butterworth (1923), p. 399.
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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