The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences." - Meaning and context.">
Speech in the House of Commons, November 12, 1936 "Debate on the Address"
• Cited in Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth
• This speech is also commonly known by the name "The Locust Years".
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The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

— Winston Churchill

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences." in the context of "Speech in the House of Commons, November 12, 1936 "Debate on the Address"
• Cited in Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth
• This speech is also commonly known by the name "The Locust Years"." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG OM CH TD FRS PC (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, though he was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.