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The shores of History are strewn with the wrecks of Empires.

— Winston Churchill

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Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol IV, Churchill at Large, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 444. ISBN 0903988453

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