Common man Quote by William Manchester

Churchill had a marvelous way with words, and greatness accompanied him like a shadow, but in certain ways, he was a 19th-century man wandering,…

— Richard Cohen

“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

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

— Charles Krauthammer

“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 is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me.

— John Lithgow

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

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

— Clement Attlee

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

“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

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

“When he smelled battle afar off, Winston Churchill resembled the war horse in Job who turned not back from the sword, but ‘paweth in…

— Barbara W. Tuchman