“Churchill, sensitive to class considerations in his conduct of the war, instructed his generals and admirals to be careful in how they… — 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
