Quotes About Churchill

Churchill's prescience about Communism had mirrored what he had said about Nazism, but this time he was able to halt the appeasement that might otherwise have once again become the West's default mechanism.

Churchill sustituyó la religión ortodoxa por una fe laica en el progreso histórico, con un marcado énfasis en la misión civilizadora de Inglaterra y el imperio británico».

Pacificism was rife at the time Ã¢â'¬â€œ 11.6 million Britons signed the League of Nations' 'Peace Ballot' in 1934–5 Ã¢â'¬â€œ and it was far easier psychologically for people to portray Churchill as a warmonger

la ausencia de la fe cristiana había determinado que el credo churchilliano girase en torno al imperio británico.

Siempre estoy dispuesto a aprender», diría Churchill en 1952, «aunque no siempre me guste que me den lecciones».

En una ocasión, Churchill tiró de un empujón a la piscina de la escuela, conocida con el nombre de Ducker, a un compañero muy bajito llamado Leopold Amery. Al darse cuenta de que Amery no tenía su edad, sino que era un estudiante del último curso, el joven Winston se disculpó diciéndole: «Mi padre, que es un gran hombre, es también de corta estatura».

When Reynaud asked what would happen when the Germans attempted to invade Britain, Churchill replied, 'I haven't thought that out very carefully, but, broadly speaking, I should propose to drown as many as possible of them on the way over, and then "frapper sur la tête" [knock on the head] anyone who managed to crawl ashore.

Winston Churchill once observed that in wartime, truth is so precious that she needs to be defended by a bodyguard of lies.)

The reverse side of Churchill's unquestioning belief in the greatness of the British race Ã¢â'¬â€œ which so fortified him in the Second World War Ã¢â'¬â€œ was his dangerous assumption of the inferiority of other races

Churchill also kept pigs and had a wire brush attached to a long stick in order to scratch their backs. 'Dogs look up to you,' he told an aide in 1952, 'cats look down on you. Give me a pig! He looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.

Churchill sensed he was speaking into a void, and years later he wrote of that debate, 'I felt a sensation of despair. To be so entirely convinced and vindicated in a matter of life and death to one's country, and not to be able to make Parliament and the nation heed the warning, or bow to the proof by taking action, was an experience most painful.

The neglect and emotional cruelty at the hands of his parents that could have crushed a lesser person instead gave Churchill an unquenchable desire to succeed in life, not only in general but in his father's chosen profession of politics.

Shortly after 8 a.m. on Sunday, 24 January 1965, the noble heart of Sir Winston Spencer-Churchill beat its last.

It turned out to be fortunate that Churchill did not meet Hitler, as the encounter proved an embarrassment to several of those Britons, such as Lloyd George, the Duke of Windsor and Churchill's cousin Lord Londonderry, who did.

In 1934, Churchill had predicted chaos when 'under the pressure of continuous attack upon London, three or four million people would be driven out into the open country around the metropolis'.3 In the event, three million people, the quarter of the city's population who were non-essential for the war effort, had already been calmly and safely evacuated all over the country, and there was no panic in the capital.

Like his other articles on Hitler, Churchill submitted this in advance to the Foreign Office, which asked him to tone it down. He did, a little. When they still complained of its toughness, he published it anyway.

Churchill insisted that the Government stayed in Whitehall throughout the Blitz. 'Mr Churchill took the view', recorded Thompson, 'that it was essential that they took at least the same chances as the remainder of the population of London.

Churchill was generally accused of being a reactionary warmonger who failed to appreciate the Russian sacrifices in the war, and the essentially benevolent nature of 'Uncle Joe'. Even today, revisionist historians still sometimes blame Churchill for launching the Cold War with the Iron Curtain speech, rather than pointing out that there was already one being fought, which the West was losing.

By the outbreak of the Second World War, Churchill had made about 1,700 speeches and travelled about 82,000 miles – over three times the circumference of the earth – to deliver them. It was an extraordinary display of energy, far more than normal politicians even of the front rank. He had become a vastly experienced and assured public speaker, capable of gauging any audience in an instant.

Churchill described the Russian Revolution as 'a tide of ruin in which perhaps a score of millions of human beings have been engulfed. The consequences of these events … will darken the world for our children's children.'155 This was both prophetic and numerically precise – at least twenty million people died under Soviet tyranny – yet his anti-Communism was to cost him a great deal politically.

The paternalist in Churchill wanted, in Masterman's critical but essentially accurate phrase, 'a state of things where a benign upper class dispensed benefits to an industrious, bien pensant, and grateful working class'.

There were light moments in response to hecklers. 'What would be the consequence if this seat were lost to Liberalism and to Free Trade?' he asked his audience rhetorically. When someone shouted out 'Beer!', Churchill immediately replied, 'That might be the cause. I am talking of the consequence.

Although the Soviet Union suffered over 90 per cent of the casualties of the Big Three Powers, Churchill did not want the Americans to behave as if Stalin's totalitarian dictatorship had some sort of moral equivalency with the Western democracies. Truman nonetheless went ahead and met Stalin privately.

They flew in the first plane to be specifically assigned to Churchill, an American-built, four-engined, Consolidated LB-30A based on the B-24 Liberator bomber and named Commando. William J. Vanderkloot, an American who had volunteered for the RAF before Pearl Harbor, was Churchill's personal pilot. The plane was bitterly cold and deafeningly