To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its foreign and domestic challenges.… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
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I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
The only instance where five purely-negative words have had a highly positive, motivational impact, are Winston Churchill's — Nabil N Jamal Copy Share Image
“World War 2 is the ultimate geopolitical smoke screen, fed to the livestock religiously, with Hitler as the moral decoy, so that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
“Poultry Farm (Sonnet) First law of poultry farming: keep your livestock busy with trivial problems, so they stay ever oblivious to systemic… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
Ramesh Ponnuru and others say Obama is a conventional liberal. But conventional liberals don't come out for the release of the Lockerbie… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“There was much talk about why the prime minister had brought back such a troublesome and unpredictable colleague, and the consensus was… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past.… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing that comes out of the meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt in early 1942 is a commitment… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
One of the marvelous things about Churchill is that whatever he was doing, whether fighting or arguing or despairing or bouncing about… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“Graças a Churchill, não foi a Alemanha que passou a dominar a Europa, mas sim os Estados Unidos e a Rússia. Graças… — Sebastian Haffner Copy Share Image
It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
