One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.
Winston ChurchillWriting ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
Winston ChurchillThere is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.
Winston ChurchillI have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.
Winston ChurchillSure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
Winston ChurchillIt is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.
Winston Churchill