European union Quote by Nicholas Soames

Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against…

— Anthony Storr

“Take away Churchill in 1940...Nazism would have prevailed. Hitler would have achieved what no other tyrant, not even Napoleon, had ever achieved: mastery of…

— Charles Krauthammer

“without Churchill, Hitler would almost certainly have won.”

— Boris Johnson

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

— 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

Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

— Ian Botham

“The President certainly did not take amiss Churchill’s excitement over Mediterranean operations, or even the Prime Minister’s loyalty to a decaying British empire. Churchill…

— Nigel Hamilton

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

— Edward Heath

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

“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

“...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 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