“I have adhered to my rule of never criticizing any measure of war or policy after the event unless I had before expressed publicly or formally my opinion or warning about it.”
Winston Churchill (verified)
The Second World War (Primary source)
Churchill’s six-volume memoir and history of World War II, chronicling his leadership as Britain’s wartime Prime Minister. Combining personal experience with strategic analysis, it covers major battles, diplomatic negotiations, and key decisions that shaped Allied victory. The work earned Churchill the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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“Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.”
— Winston Churchill (verified)“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.”
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— Winston Churchill (verified)“The maxim Nothing avails but perfection may be spelt shorter: Paralysis.”
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“We must be our own [friend] before we can be another’s.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“The golden age never was the present age.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)