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Foyles War made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

“In one great case a man [Winston Churchill] who had been considered too brilliant and too reckless ever to be trusted with major office…

— Graham Greene

“I am writing this because on that night of the tenth of May in the 1,940th year of Our Lord, Churchill stood for more…

— John Lukacs

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done,…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should…

— Christopher Hitchens

It is impossible not to be moved by the verve, courage and elan with Churchill attacked his last and ultimately invincible enemy, old age…

— David Cannadine

Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem…

— John Lithgow

“...only Churchill carries that absolutely required criterion: indispensability. Without Churchill the world today would be unrecognizable--dark, impoverished, tortured.”

— Charles Krauthammer

“It was thus that in 1940 [Hitler] represented a wave of the future. His greatest reactionary opponent, Churchill, was like King Canute, attempting to…

— John Lukacs

What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible…

— John Lithgow

Churchill was a brilliant and inspiring rhetorician, but one of the first things he did as the head of the British nation was to…

— Nicholson Baker

Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in…

— Ralph Raico