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Winston Churchill1874–1965

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.

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In the House of Commons (18 April 1947), cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (1996), Jay, Oxford University Press, p. 93.

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