Every step Quote by Jon Meacham

“I vividly recall an occasion when the oldest son was starting to crawl. We were sitting in a garden in the country with acres…

— Alice Thomas Ellis

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

“...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

“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

“Taking it all the way to a disciplinary procedure and talking to a national newspaper is the mark of an unusual man. But is…

— David Mitchell

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

“Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.”

— Jane Austen

“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

“Coming events cast their Shadows before them. —Winston Churchill”

— Noel Hynd

“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

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

— Charles Krauthammer

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