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Swede

(33,233 posts) Wed Feb 29, 2012, 11:14 AM Feb 2012

"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...

after they have exhausted all other possibilities." - Winston Churchill

I'd never heard this one before.

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"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing... (Original Post) Swede Feb 2012 OP

i've heard it many times before. it never ceases to apply. unblock Feb 2012 #1

I've heard it before too and I find it amusing, although I don't agree whathehell Feb 2012 #2

unblock

(52,196 posts)

1. i've heard it many times before. it never ceases to apply.

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Wed Feb 29, 2012, 11:22 AM

Feb 2012

i suppose this does at least make us better than those countries who never get around to doing the right thing....

churchill certainly had some great ones. a fun quiz would be a series of quotes where you have to guess identify if it was churchill or twain.

whathehell

(29,067 posts)

2. I've heard it before too and I find it amusing, although I don't agree

Reply to unblock (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 29, 2012, 11:34 AM

Feb 2012

on its ceasless application.

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