My Prime Minister
Does anybody have a copy of Manchester’s two-part biography of Winston Spencer Churchill I could peruse? I’m considering buying them as summer reading, which I may want to get a jump start on sometime next week.
Just for fun, some Churchill quotes:
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing, great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
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It seems to me a pity that I know so little about a man who has so many great things to say.
January 30th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing… after trying everything else first.”
I don’t know who that was… some European dude, maybe even Churchill…. but I thought it was funny, and who knows when I would get to use it. So there you go!
January 30th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
It was indeed Churchill. He appears to have been a man with a sense of humor. I wonder in what context the quote ocurred.