“Eaten bread is soon forgotten.”
Winston Churchill
The World Crisis (Primary source)
Churchill’s six-volume memoir and history of World War I, covering his role as First Lord of the Admiralty, the Gallipoli campaign, major battles, and political decisions. Blending personal experience with strategic analysis, it offers Churchill’s insider perspective on the Great War’s key events and personalities.
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“You do your worst—and we will do our best.”
— Winston Churchill Primary source“Never give in—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.”
— Winston Churchill Primary source“Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.”
— Winston Churchill Primary source“We may now picture this great Fleet, with its flotillas and cruisers, steaming slowly out of Portland Harbour, squadron by squadron, scores of gigantic castles of steel wending their way across the misty, shining sea, like giants bowed in anxious thought. We may picture them again as darkness fell, eighteen miles of warships running at high speed and in absolute blackness through the Narrow Straits, bearing with them into the broad waters of the North the safeguard of considerable affairs […] The king’s ships were at sea.”
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“Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
— Albert Einstein Primary source“We never repent of having eaten too little.”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source“Where there’s no law, there’s no bread.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source