Ambition Quote by Christopher Hitchens

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

— Charles Krauthammer

One of the great things about Churchill is that he had the guts to say the unpalatable, to level with the people, even if…

— Anthony McCarten

“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

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

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

— Coco Chanel

“In many ways Churchill remained a nineteenth-century man, and by no means a common man. He fit the mold of what Henry James called…

— William Manchester

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

“...every once in a while, a single person arises without whom everything would be different. Such a man was Churchill. After having single-handedly saved…

— Charles Krauthammer

“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

“The actor Richard Burton once wrote an article for the New York Times about his experience playing the role of Winston Churchill in a…

— Richard Burton

Given that his rousing speeches play on a perpetual loop somewhere in the back of the national psyche, and the bulk of the country…

— David Olusoga

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