(33 quotes found)
“Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.”
James C. Humes
“Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.”
William Manchester
“When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.”
Charles de Gaulle
“I grew up in the '40s and I heard all these great speeches, like Winston Churchill. His most famous, or infamous commencement exercise speech was one that consisted of seven words. He stood before this graduating class and said: "Never, never, never, never give up."”
Johnny Cash
“It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb.”
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
Winston Churchill
“Hoffman is right. It's much harder to get away with dirty little secrets like Ward Churchill - who apparently gamed the CU system for years - in the era of the blogosphere, when facts (not rumors) can be instantly reported. If I had simply published rumors, the story would never have caught on like it did.”
Charles Johnson
“This is really a victory for professor Churchill.”
David Lane
“He's in his stall in Churchill Downs. We walked him here this morning before he left. ... They said he unloaded good.”
Bob Holthus
“I figured that first year would be swell. We'd do Roosevelt and Churchill, a couple of things like that, and that would be it,”
Peter Graves