If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.
Winston ChurchillThe water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.
Winston ChurchillI am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.
Winston ChurchillBy being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.
Winston Churchill