Quote by Christopher Hitchens

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chr

Topics: Ambition, Biography, Larger-than-life, Personality, Winston-churchill By Christopher Hitchens

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