“You are a small exclamation mark at the end of a very long and insignificant sentence in the book of history.”

— Winston S. Churchill

a remark made in the House of Commons responding to a Laborite speech; reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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