"A joke is a very serious thing." — Winston Churchill

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• I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. — Arthur Balfour
• What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today,… — David Cameron
• Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last.… — John Naughton
• Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober. — Winston Churchill
• For over five years this man has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could… — Adolf Hitler
• Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black... — Danielle O'Hara
• It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a… — Malcolm Muggeridge
• No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon… — Peter Hilton
• What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all… — Mahatma Gandhi
• Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started… — Christian Slater
• I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of… — Albert Finney
• I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of… — Patrick Macnee

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