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  • Churchill on top of the wave has in himthe stuff of which tyrants are made.

    -Baron
    ^32  Politicians and the War.

  • She is trying to wear the trousers of Winston Churchill.

    - Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
      Of Margaret Thatcher. Speech.

  • When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian; and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchillwhether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains, quite simply, a great man.

    - Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
      Political History, ch.2.

  • The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it†an additional tactic in this strategy of defense†is to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.

    -John Kenneth Galbraith
      Economics and the Art of Controversy.

  • Say quotes from the shortstop or the Prime Minister, but quotations from the Bible, Browning or Churchill.

    -J A, and Clements,Warren McFarlane
      The Globe and Mail Style Book.

  • Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

    -William Raymond Manchester
      In Book of the Month Club News,  Jun.

  • It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking toVictoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons.

    -William Raymond Manchester
      The Last Lion.

  • Randolph Churchill went into hospital†to have a lung removed. It was announced that the trouble was not 'malignant'. Seeing Ed Stanley in White's, on my way to Rome,Iremarked that it was atypicaltriumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

    - Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
      Diary note, Mar.

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