Fancy cutting down those beautiful trees we saw this afternoon to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

Winston Churchill · Quebec, 11 August 1929

I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 4 December 1952

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