“Other wartime leaders would do well to imitate his inquisitive approach. They should not look for consensus, and instead should examine differences between advisors, asking them for the reasons for their different views.” — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“was a moral victory simply to question the official presentation of truth and posit an alternative by documenting observable reality.” — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“Another surprising fan mention came from Keith Richards, the guitarist for the Rolling Stones, who defended his dissipated lifestyle by correctly citing Churchill’s comment,… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“Work diligently to discern the facts of the matter, and then use your principles to respond. They” — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“Hamlet is the tragedy of a man who does not know how to commit a murder. Macbeth is the tragedy of a man who… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“Orwell depicts the proletarians as essentially uncontrollable. The state does not try to control them as much as it simply distracts them.” — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“Churchill, sensitive to class considerations in his conduct of the war, instructed his generals and admirals to be careful in how they governed the… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“Even so, his friend the journalist Malcolm Muggeridge would conclude that “he was at heart strongly anti-Semitic.” At” — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“When he went through a cancer scare and had a benign tumor removed, his sometime friend Evelyn Waugh remarked that it was typical of… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“One day in the 1950s, one of Churchill’s grandsons poked his head into the old man’s study. Is it true, the child inquired, that… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“Other wartime leaders would do well to imitate his inquisitive approach. They should not look for consensus, and instead should examine differences between advisors,… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“As Orwell once wrote, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”—most… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“England is the most class-ridden country under the sun,” Orwell charged in “The Lion and the Unicorn.” “It is a land of snobbery and… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“Yet Orwell never fit into the BBC. At about the same time, he wrote in his diary, “Its atmosphere is something between a girls’… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“is clear now that appeasement rested more on self-delusion than on rational calculation, because it necessarily required faith in Hitler’s sanity and trustworthiness.” — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
