All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.
Winston ChurchillI had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.
Winston ChurchillI am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston ChurchillHistory unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.
Winston ChurchillJudged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.
Winston Churchill