“He looked confused. “With your girlfriend, I mean. Who was to blame?”
“I don’t know,” I said. “Ultimately Churchill, I expect.”
Source: Er ist wieder da
“The shores of History are strewn with the wrecks of Empires.”
Source: Churchill By Himself
“Now at last, at last, his hour had struck. He had been waiting in Parliament for forty years, had grown bald and gray in his nation’s service, had endured slander and calumny only to be summoned when the situation seemed hopeless to everyone except him.”
Source: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932
“Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like to be taught. -- W. S. Churchill”
Source: Churchill & Smuts: The Friendship
“Every generation has its fraudsters like Edison,
Every generation has trashy maniacs like Columbus.
Every generation has war-merchants like Kissinger,
Every generation has its churchillian doofus.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“The west has systematically peddled
morons and monkeys as kings heroic,
white suffering is human suffering, while
the colored belong on national geographic.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“When we're down and out, when we're disappointed and dejected, when we're lost and confused, all we tend to see is the now. Hope helps us see the beyond.”
Source: Free Fall: Life Lessons That Caught Me When the Parachute Didn't
“I have thought carefully in these last days whether it was part of my duty to consider entering into negotiations with that man. And concluded, if this long island story of ours is to end at last let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.”
Source: The Last Lion : Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
“Humpty Dumpty (Colonial Sonnet)
Humpty Dumpty sat on a throne,
he made a career of divide-n-rule.
Whole west found a savior in a fool,
as he was anointed the royal mule.
He smuggled food from starving natives,
for fighting troops were far more worthy.
Adolf was designated the villain supremo,
while he was the free world's beloved Humpty.
It's fault of the natives to "breed like rabbits",
he was right to be their judge and executioner.
After all, human rights mean rights of the pale,
freedom and equality don't apply to the darker.
Humpty Dumpty was ready with his cigar,
to fight the invaders on the beaches.
Sure he was the right nut for the job,
expertise lies in centuries of practice.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“By the time he came into Downing Street in May 1940 he had written and read so much history as to have a unique understanding of events, to see them in context, and to see what England must do.”
Source: The Churchill Factor