Churchill has spent the best years of his life preparing impromptu remarks. - F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

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Churchill has spent the best years of his life preparing impromptu remarks.

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About F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, GCSI, PC (12 July 1872 – 30 September 1930) was a British Conservative statesman and lawyer of the early 20th century. He was a skilled orator, noted for his staunch opposition to Irish nationalism, his wit, pugnacious views, and hard living and drinking. He is perhaps best remembered today as Winston Churchill's greatest personal and political friend until Smith's untimely death at age 58.

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Native Name: Frederick Edwin Smith, 1. Earl of Birkenhead
Alternative Names: Frederick Edwin Smith Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead
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As the Tories happened to be right then, and their opponents happened to be wrong, as they had been wrong at every moment in the nation's history when similar issues had arisen, was he to remain silent when men were preaching the same crazy doctrine that there would be no more war and when he looked round and saw wars and threats of wars? Whenever he met such sentimental folly he would castigate it.

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