People who go to Italy to look at ruins won’t have to go as far as Naples and Pompeii in the future.
Read three or four books at a time to avoid tedium—and
Outline his frontier demands, Stalin
The truth is so precious, Churchill told Stalin, that she should always be protected by a bodyguard of lies.
The idea that you can vote yourself into prosperity is one of the most ludicrous that was ever entertained.
The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
Bouffant coiffures.
In Churchill’s moral paradigm, loyalty was an absolute, where trust admitted to degrees.
It meant good-bye to London and to Churchill, whose company Harriman thoroughly enjoyed, and to Pamela, whose bed he enjoyed (the lovers’ hiatus lasted almost three decades, until 1971, when Pamela Be...
Nazi aggression, one might think, should have lent support to Winston’s candidacy. At this, of all times, it seems inconceivable that Baldwin would pick a weak man to supervise the defense of England....
One would have thought that in the days of peace the progress of women to an ever larger share in the life and work and guidance of the community would have grown, and that, under the violences of war...
Tell me the sort of agreement that the United Nations will reach with respect to the world’s petroleum reserves when the war is over, Ickes proclaimed, and I will undertake to analyze the durability o...
Churchill warned them now: When you are drifting down the stream of Niagara, it may easily happen that from time to time you run into a reach of quite smooth water, or that a bend in the river or a ch...
In Parliament a fellow MP whispered to him that his trousers were unfastened. It makes no difference, Winston replied wryly. The dead bird doesn’t leave the nest.
Churchill had arrived in Persia secure in his nineteenth-century belief in England’s imperial destiny; he left having learned a cold lesson. He now had no choice but to regard the status of his small...
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or, as it were, fondle them—peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back...
Social security was the most emotional issue that session. Republicans protested that if the administration bill were passed, children would no longer support their parents, the payroll tax would disc...
Dear John— It will be many years before you understand fully what a great man your father was. His loss is a deep personal tragedy for all of us, but I wanted you particularly to know that I share y...
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary; it fulfils the same function as pain in the human body, it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things.
Churchill, too, offered Roosevelt a name for the war; it summed up in three words the entire legacy of the appeasers and isolationists: The Unnecessary War.
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