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Quotes About Churchill

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
~ Suzanne Fields
Marni shrugged. "We'll just get revived – and then you'll get your hand slapped by High Blade Churchill for being an 'insufferable bitch.
~ Neal Shusterman
The blindness of Winston Churchill turned him into a Zionist dupe and trapped him into triggering WWII, with its millions of victims. It is to be regretted that some right-wingers are following his path by supporting Zionism and pushing for WWIII.
~ Israel Shamir
It was the most incredible feeling you can have winning the Kentucky Derby. You're not really mentally prepared for it. It's the greatest race in America, with 150,000 people, Churchill Downs, the Twin Spires, it's just magical.
~ Bob Baffert
I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready.
~ Albert Finney
I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.
~ George Orwell
Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.
~ Terry Pratchett
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: "This was their finest hour."
~ Winston Churchill
I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.
~ Maurice Druon
I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
~ Arthur Balfour
tears' after he told her simply: 'It's all up.'26 Churchill was the exception. He told Violet Asquith on 22 February 1915: I think a curse should rest on me – because I love this war. I know it's smashing & shattering the lives of thousands every moment – & yet – I can't help it – I enjoy every second
~ Niall Ferguson
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.
~ Christopher Hitchens
How Fast Can Your Company Afford to Grow?" a Harvard Business Review article by Neil C. Churchill and John W. Mullins.
~ Verne Harnish
Nancy astor -Mr Churchill you're drunk Churchill-- you madam are ugly at lease Tomorrow I'll sober
~ Lady Nancy Astor
primeira metade do século vinte no fundo não terá sido nada senão isso: um confronto titânico entre artistas. Estaline, Hitler, Churchill. Depois chegaram os burocratas
~ Giuliano da Empoli
a primeira metade do século vinte no fundo não terá sido nada senão isso: um confronto titânico entre artistas. Estaline, Hitler, Churchill. Depois chegaram os burocratas
~ Giuliano da Empoli
The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.
~ Denis Thatcher
The President certainly did not take amiss Churchill's excitement over Mediterranean operations, or even the Prime Minister's loyalty to a decaying British empire. Churchill was, he felt, merely misguided — the product of high Victorian imperialism
~ Nigel Hamilton
One solution, instituted by Winston Churchill when he was at the Treasury, was the 'Ten Year Rule', the doctrine that defence budgets could be written on the assumption that there would be no war for ten years. On that basis spending on expendables such as ammunition and even quartz transducers for sonars (Asdics) could be eliminated (major capital items such as ships could still be bought).
~ Norman Friedman
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame to copy faults is want of sense.
~ Charles Churchill
One day in the 1950s, one of Churchill's grandsons poked his head into the old man's study. Is it true, the child inquired, that you are the greatest man in the world? Churchill, in typical fashion, responded, "Yes, and now bugger off." The
~ Thomas E Ricks
In most places and most of the time, liberty is not a product of military action. Rather, it is something alive that grows or diminishes every day, in how we think and communicate, how we treat each other in our public discourse, in what we value and reward as a society, and how we do that. Churchill and Orwell showed us the way.
~ Thomas E Ricks