Adversaries Quote by David Cannadine

“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

“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

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

Churchill is the very type of a corrupt journalist. There is not a worse prostitute in politics. He himself has written that it'sunimaginable what…

— Adolf Hitler

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

— Charles Krauthammer

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

— Coco Chanel

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the…

— Anonymous

“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

Churchill the right-winger has been elevated to a status where you can't criticise him. People from the time remember him as an imperialist, a…

— Ken Loach

“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

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is…

— Chris Bird

Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.

— Clement Attlee