Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
Winston ChurchillWe must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations
Winston ChurchillHe sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success.
Winston ChurchillNever, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Winston Churchill