Conversation Quote by William Manchester

If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of…

— Anthony McCarten

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

“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

“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

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

Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or…

— Simon Sinek

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of…

— William Manchester

“I fired MacArthur because he wouldn’t respect the authority of the president. I didn’t fire him because he was a dumb son of a…

— Harry S. Truman

Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer…

— Anonymous

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

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

“He was a thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of me and the worst…

— William Manchester