I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.