{"quotes":[{"text":"Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.","author":"Winston Churchill","tags":["advice","arguing","difficulties","winston-churchill"],"id":6549,"author_id":"Winston+Churchill"},{"text":"(Exchange with Winston Churchill)Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which the Lady Astor retorted, 'Sir, you are not handsome enough to have such fears'.","author":"Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor","tags":["handsome","men","parlimament","winston-churchill","women"],"id":38398,"author_id":"Nancy+Astor+the+Viscountess+Astor"},{"text":"In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off the drift to exploring a deal with Hitler. The determination of the larger group trumped the tentativeness of the smaller, and Churchill fulfilled his role as leader by disentangling himself from defeatism--one of his singular achievements at the end of May 1940.","author":"Jon Meacham","tags":["defeatism","determination","group-dynamics","winston-churchill"],"id":42737,"author_id":"Jon+Meacham"},{"text":"Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.— Winston S. Churchill.","author":"Ellen Brazer","tags":["award-winning-","espionage","historical-novel","history","holocaust","intrigue","israel","political-thriller","romance","united-states","winston-churchill","world-war-two","wwii"],"id":59742,"author_id":"Ellen+Brazer"},{"text":"Nancy Astor: 'Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.'Winston Churchill: 'Madame,I f you were my wife, I'd drink it!'(Exchange with Winston Churchill).","author":"Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor","tags":["husband","men","strong-women","winston-churchill","women"],"id":91512,"author_id":"Nancy+Astor+the+Viscountess+Astor"},{"text":"21. Take in a great breath of air and then blow it out. Contained in that single breath were at least three nitrogen atoms that were breathed by every human being who ever lived, including Jesus Christ, William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, and every president of the United States. This illustrates the fact that everything we do affects other people, positively or negatively. That’s why it is foolish to say, “Do your own thing if it doesn’t hurt anybody else.” Everything we do affects other people.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["a","affects","air","and","anybody","at","atoms","being","blow","breath","breathed","by","contained","do","doesn-t","else","ever","every","everything","fact","foolish","great","human","hurt","if","illustrates","in","including","is","it","jesus-christ","least","lived","negatively","nitrogen","of","or","other","out","own","people","positvely","president","say","single","take","that","that-s","the","then","thing","this","three","to","united-states","we","were","who","why","william-shakespeare","winston-churchill","your"],"id":121082,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"There is no doubt that we are a very cruel people,' Winston Churchill wrote home from the front. 'Severity always,' went the British motto, 'justice when possible.","author":"Wade Davis","tags":["human-nature","winston-churchill"],"id":166355,"author_id":"Wade+Davis"},{"text":"It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him—the winning of a democratic election.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["american-imperialism","britain","british-empire","cold-war","conservative-party-uk","crisis","democracy","elections","history","imperialism","power","russia","soviet-union","time","truth","united-states","winston-churchill"],"id":279422,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between patriotism and Toryism, brought Clement Attlee to the prime ministership. In the succeeding five years, Labor inaugurated the National Health Service, the first and boldest experiment in socialized medicine. It took into public ownership all the vital (and bankrupted) utilities of the coal, gas, electricity and railway industries. It even nibbled at the fiefdoms and baronies of private steel, air transport and trucking. It negotiated the long overdue independence of India. It did all this, in a country bled white by the World War and subject to all manner of unpopular rationing and controls, without losing a single midterm by-election (a standard not equaled by any government of any party since). And it was returned to office at the end of a crowded term.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["britain","british-people","clement-attlee","elections","india","indian-independence-act-1947","indian-independence-movement","labour-party-uk","national-health-service","patriotism","prime-minister-of-the-uk","rationing-in-the-united-kingdom","socialised-medicine","toyrism","uk-general-election-1945","united-kingdom","welfare-state","winston-churchill","world-war-ii"],"id":336923,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"If Churchill recommends optimism, who are you or I to quibble?","author":"Anthony Weston","tags":["churchill","optimism","winston-churchill"],"id":358051,"author_id":"Anthony+Weston"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}