#churchill

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David. ↗

— Luke Ford

#abraham lincoln #books #churchill #david #heroes

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#alive #churchill #forty #forty years #his

It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him—the winning of a democratic election. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#britain #british-empire #cold-war #conservative-party-uk #crisis

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world. — Winston S. Churchill ↗

— Ellen Brazer

#espionage #historical-novel #history #holocaust #intrigue

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#alone #america #before #britain #churchill

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#crucial #decisive #desert #greek #how

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period. ↗

— John Pople

#brought #children #churchill #each #east

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role. ↗

— Christian Slater

#churchill #emotionally #finished #gain #gain weight

All the nut eaters and food faddists I have ever known, died early after a long period of senile decay - Winston Churchill ↗

— Stuart Finlay

#winston-churchill #ww #business

My father was quite conscious of that distinction, too, and because he spoke very freely in private, he used to sometimes say, quite fiercely, "Now that's secret!" And then if I or somebody else looked hurt because they thought, "Well, of course I'm not going to leave the table and pick up the telephone and ring the papers." If Papa saw that we were wounded, he would say, "It isn't that I don't trust you, but I'm labeling it, I'm labeling it." That phrase passed into family history. "I'm labeling it!" Papa would say, quite merrily sometimes. ↗

— Mary Soames

#secrecy #winston-churchill #family