Quotes About Churchill

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt…. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.

Churchill had lived by a simple dictum: "In war, resolution. In defeat, defiance. In victory, magnanimity. In peace, goodwill"—and he sincerely meant it.

He had been, and in some respects always would be, a defender of established order. Imperialism would never be a pejorative for [Churchill]," Manchester observed.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]

I surmised that this project would prove a mistake, like Mr. Churchill's attempt to take Gallipoli in 1915, but it would be the kind of mistake that would look good in his memoirs.

Toward the urn the three children raced in a dead heat, Jane still shouting . FOR CHURCHILL, NELSON, AND PRINCE WILLIAM!

We can't just follow Paris for the sake of Paris! As long as I live, I shall never forget those words. That speech was certainly more stirring to me than anything Churchill had ever said.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Churchill, Twain said, 'knew all about war and nothing about peace'. Twain added that he himself disapproved of the war in South Africa, 'and he thought England sinned when she interfered with the Boers, as the United States is sinning in meddling in the affairs of the Filipinos. England and America were kin in almost everything; now they are kin in sin.

Churchill thought that it was 'Crazy' to give universal suffrage to 'these naked savages'. Lyttelton hoped to 'retard' constitutional development in Nigeria and cited the principle of 'divide et impera'.

Much had happened to Churchill in the interval between these two speeches. In January 1895 his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, died at the age of forty-five from a degenerative illness, possibly syphilis,

But Churchill lies directly in the path of polar bears that migrate from summer shelter to the coast of Hudson Bay in anticipation of the bay's waters freezing; it was one thing to have experienced, as I had on several occasions, a moose lying in the driveway or walking down the street, but the prospect of a large and hungry carnivore lurking around the corner seeming to me an entirely different proposition.

For Churchill residents, particularly those who, like Lance, grew up in the community, bear awareness is. both ingrained and a matter of pride; appropriately safe behaviors are second-nature. The approach is one of neither blustering bravado nor crippling caution; common sense prevails

The UN was his idea, not hers," Phil objected. "She worked for it after it was established, but he had the idea from even before the war. World peace, the rule of law, and the end of all the empires. It was amazing how hard he tweaked Churchill and de Gaulle on that. He wouldn't lift a finger to help them keep their old empires after the war.

Churchill , he is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.

Winston Churchill famously said that democracy is the worst political system in the world, except for all the others.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius fifty per cent bloody fool.

celui de l'Iran. Churchill en personne s'est démené pour abattre le gouvernement du docteur Mossadegh

Ainsi, par son action en Égypte, Churchill a favorisé l'émergence du nationalisme arabe dans sa version autoritaire et xénophobe ; et par son action en Iran, il a pavé la voie à l'islamisme khomeyniste.

Or we reference Winston Churchill, who was famously reported to have written "This is the kind of tedious/arrant nonsense up with which I will not put," in response to an overweening staffer having removed a preposition from some of his writing. (However, as with many quotes that are purported to have originated with the former prime minister of Great Britain, the author was someone other than Churchill).*