The man who makes no mistakes never makes anything
Churchill was in his element; work and a clear plan.
28 German territorial losses
The Australian Air Force had shot down five enemy fighters,
The first and foremost step towards a victorious landing was to upset the equilibrium of the Turk so that he should be unable to concentrate either his mind or his men to meet our main attacks…. Prude...
It is only experience and disillusionment that make me cautious.
In No-Man’s Land near Loos an enormous flowering cherry tree had blossomed with stunning beauty that spring. After the blossoms had fallen a young British officer went out on night patrol and, climbin...
The passivity of the present Govt is beyond belief.
For the first time in British history, gave votes to women; six million women gained the vote as a result of the new Act.
Throughout June 13 Churchill worked at No. 10 Annexe on his second broadcast, helped first by his son-in-law Duncan Sandys, and then by his son Randolph.123 During his speech, as his daughter Sarah ha...
It is nothing to me whether I am in Parliament or not,’ he wrote to his wife on 8 March 1935, ‘unless I can defend the cause in which I believe.’ Churchill’s five-year opposition to the Government’s I...
We must learn to draw from misfortune the means of future strength.
Within seven months, more than 600,000 Armenians were massacred. Of the 500,000 deported during that same period, more than 400,000 perished as a result of the brutalities and privations of the southw...
Foolish perhaps, but I play for high stakes and given an audience there is no act too daring or too noble.
At Joncherey, near the German-Swiss border, a French soldier, Corporal André Peugeot, was killed, the first French victim of a war that was to claim more than a million French lives.
Recalled how his visitor stepped from her car and exclaimed,
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We shall never shake ourselves clear from the debts of the past and break into a definitely larger period except by the energetic creation of new wealth.
We are in the midst of dangers so great and increasing, we are the guardians of causes so precious to the world, that we must, as the Bible says, Lay aside every impediment and prepare ourselves night...
The Government’s repeated response, however, even after October 1938, was to continue to attack his motives and judgement, and to seek to minimize the importance of his information. ‘No doubt it is no...