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title: "4 Churchill Quotes By Charles Krauthammer"
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> [ “And who is the hero of that story? Who slew the dragon \[totalitarianism\]? Yes, it was the ordinary man, the taxpayer, the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/and-who-is-the-hero-of-that-story-who-slew-the-dragon-totalitarianism/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

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> [“Take away Churchill in 1940...Nazism would have prevailed. Hitler would have achieved what no other tyrant, not even Napoleon, had ever achieved:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/take-away-churchill-in-1940-nazism-would-have-prevailed-hitler-would/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

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> [“...only Churchill carries that absolutely required criterion: indispensability. Without Churchill the world today would be unrecognizable--dark, impoverished, tortured.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/only-churchill-carries-that-absolutely-required-criterion/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

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> [“...every once in a while, a single person arises without whom everything would be different. Such a man was Churchill. After having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/every-once-in-a-while-a-single-person-arises-without-whom-everything/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

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## Other authors on Churchill

## More by Charles Krauthammer

> [Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/obama-and-the-democrats-were-so-critical-of-what-bush-did-the/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

> [“America is the most welcoming, religiously tolerant, philo-semitic country in the world. No nation since Cyrus the Great’s Persia has done more for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/america-is-the-most-welcoming-religiously-tolerant-philo-semitic/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

> [I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/i-believe-in-what-i-believe-and-i-think-after-all-these-years-i-ve/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

> [With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/with-our-financial-house-on-fire-obama-makes-clear-both-in-in-his/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

> [The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-conservative-idea-is-not-that-government-has-no-role-you-might/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

> [The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been fought with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-war-is-not-going-well-and-it-is-time-to-say-why-it-has-been/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

> [“International stability is never a given. It is never the norm. When achieved, it is the product of self-conscious action by the great powers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/international-stability-is-never-a-given-it-is-never-the-norm-when/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

> [Look, I don't mind if the President sends a budget which he knows is not going to achieve anything. But when he prefaces his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/look-i-don-t-mind-if-the-president-sends-a-budget-which-he-knows-is/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

> [“Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/politics-is-the-moat-the-walls-beyond-which-lie-the-barbarians-fail/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

> [Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon--my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/don-t-touch-my-junk-you-airport-security-goon-my-package-belongs-to/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

> [“The Russian Revolution and its imitators (Chinese, Cuban, Vietnamese, Cambodian) tried to atomize society so thoroughly--to war against the mediating structures that stand between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-russian-revolution-and-its-imitators-chinese-cuban-vietnamese/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

> [Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/where-religion-is-trivialized-one-is-unlikely-to-find-persecution/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

> [We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/we-must-now-brace-ourselves-for-disquisitions-on-peer-pressure/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

> [Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/post-watergate-morality-by-which-anything-left-private-is-taken-as/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

> [“The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity,' warns Czech president Vaclav Klaus, 'is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-largest-threat-to-freedom-democracy-the-market-economy-and/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

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