The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (49 page)

‘we shape
 . . . shape us’
Winston Churchill, 28 October 1943. See http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations/famous-quotations-and-stories. Accessed 31 August 2014.

‘I have taken
 . . . out of me’
Michael Richards, ‘Alcohol Abuser’. See http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/myths/myths/he-was-an-alcohol-abuser. Accessed 31 August 2014.

‘May I have
 . . . white meat’
Dominique Enright
, The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
(London: 2011), Kindle edition.

‘And mark my words
 . . . liquidate you’
Winston Churchill, 5 July 1943; Nigel Nicolson, ed.,
Harold Nicholson
Diaries and Letters: 1939–1945
, vol.2, p. 303.

‘sheep in sheep’s clothing’
See D. W. Brogan,
Safire’s Political Dictionary
(London: 2008), p. 352.

‘I remember
 . . . Treasury Bench’
Winston Churchill, 28 January 1931, House of Commons;
Hansard
, HC Deb, vol. 247, cc999–1111.

‘There but for the grace
 . . . goes God’
Winston Churchill, quoted in
Life,
16 February 1948, p. 39.

‘no more
 . . . pink pansies’
Richard Langworth, ed.,
Churchill: By Himself
(New York: 2013), p. 57.

‘Tell them
 . . . instruction literally’
Enright,
Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
, p. 139.

‘When I warned
 . . . some neck!’
Winston Churchill, 30 December 1941, Canadian Parliament, Ottawa; Richard Langworth
, Churchill: By Himself,
p. 24.

‘triphibian’,
 ‘unsordid’
Ibid, p. 48.

‘Gimme
 . . . klop’
Ibid, p. 54.

‘Christ!’
John Pearson,
The Private Lives of Winston Churchill
(London: 1991), p. 155.

11. ‘
T
HE
M
OST
A
DVANCED
P
OLITICIAN OF THE
T
IME’

‘Fancy living
 . . . clever!’
Michael Sheldon,
The Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill
(London: 2014), pp. 127–28.

‘like blacks’
Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 17 April 1924; Mary Soames,
Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill
(London: 1999), p. 281.

‘no interest
 . . . yellow peoples’
Winston Churchill to Neville Chamberlain, 27 March 1939; see ‘Did Singapore Have to Fall?’ http://www.winstonchurchill.org/support/the-churchill-centre/publications/finest-hour/issues-109-to-144/no-138/903-part-5-did-singapore-have-to-fall. Accessed 31 August 2014.

‘bomb or machine-gun’
John Pearson,
The Private Lives of Winston Churchill
(London: 1991), p. 183.

‘baboons’
Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill, vol. 4: The Stricken World, 1916–1922,
p. 227.

‘horrible
 . . . moral disease’
Paul Addison,
Churchill: The Unexpected Hero
(Oxford: 2005),
p. 93.

‘one might as well
 . . . Bolsheviks’
See Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York: 1991), p.
408.

‘feeding cat’s meat to a tiger’
Madhusree Mukerjee,
Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
(London: 2010), p. 14.

‘a bit of bloodshed
 . . . throat’
Paul Addison,
Churchill on the Home Front, 1900–1955
(London: 1992), p. 216.

‘It is a national evil
 . . . degeneration’
Winston Churchill, 28 April 1909, House of Commons,
Hansard,
HC Deb, vol. 4, cc342–411.

‘a striking illustration
 . . . legislation’
Alan S. Baxendale,
Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill: Penal Reformer
(London: 2010), p. 191, n. 66.

‘Insurance
 . . . rescue of the masses’
Randolph Churchill and Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman 1901–1914
, p. 294.

‘All this picture
 . . . industry’
Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 14 September 1909; Addison,
Home Front
, p. 86.

‘survival of a feudal
 . . . forever’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 211.

‘The prisoner
 . . . habits in prison’
Ibid., pp. 212–13.

‘I wanted to draw
 . . . inconvenience’
Roy Jenkins,
Churchill: A Biography
(New York: 2001), p. 182.

‘vendetta’
See ‘Winston Churchill’
Daily
Telegraph,
2 March 2010.

‘They are very poor
 . . . starving’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 231.

‘had a real grievance
 . . . civilisation’
Ibid., p. 232.

‘no worker
 . . . trade dispute’
Ibid., p. 377.

‘recalcitrant
 . . . unreasonable’
Ibid., p. 478.

‘aboriginal
 . . . Tory’
Addison,
Home Front
, p. 101.

‘Winston has no convictions’
Richard Toye,
Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness
(London: 2012), p. 47.

‘made his hair stand on end’
Jenkins,
Churchill,
p. 81.

‘It was the world
 . . . very few’
James C. Humes,
Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman
(New York: 2012), p. 68.

‘he desired in Britain
 . . . working class’
James Muller,
Churchill as a Peacemaker
(London: 2003), p. 14.

great central party
 . . . on the other
Addison,
Home Front
, p. 26.

‘Conservative in principle
 . . . sympathy’
Norman Rose,
Churchill: An Unruly Life
(London: 1994), p. 208.

‘the existing capitalist
 . . . necessities’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life,
pp. 465–68.

12.
N
O
G
LORY IN
S
LAUGHTER

‘could not help
 . . . before that’
Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York: 1991), p. 393.

‘The economic clauses
 . . . futile’
Winston Churchill,
The Second World War, vol. 1:
The Gathering Storm
(London: 1986), p. 6.

‘a man with such power
 . . . confronted’
Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill, vol. 5: Prophet of Truth 1922–1939
, p. 805.

‘Churchill had seen more
 . . . army’
Pat Buchanan,
Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
(New York: 2008), p. 59.

‘seldom
 . . . minimise its horrors’
Peregrine Worsthorne, ‘Why Winston Churchill Is Not Really a War Hero’,
The Week,
22 October 2008.

‘Winston has got
 . . .
with sadness’
Roy Jenkins,
Churchill: A Biography
(New York: 2001), p. 240.

‘Winston
 . . . delicious’
Michael and Eleanor Brock, eds
., Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary 1914–1916: The View from Downing Street
(London: 2014), p. 54; Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, pp. 294–95.

‘your father
 . . . Dardanelles’
Andrew Roberts, review of Carlo D’Este,
Warlord: A Life of Churchill at War, 1874–1945
,
Daily
Telegraph
, 10 April 2009.

‘criminal and cowardly’
Norman Rose,
Churchill: An Unruly Life
(London: 1994), p. 39.

‘boy
 . . . Russia’
Michael Sheldon,
The Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill
(London: 2014), pp. 129–31.

‘If I were a Boer
 . . . field’
Winston Churchill’s maiden speech in the House of Commons, 18 February 1901; Jenkins,
Churchill
, p. 72.

‘What is going on
 . . . bloody rags’
Richard Langworth,
Churchill: By Himself
(New York: 2013), p. 251.

‘I saw the daylight
 . . . death’
Churchill,
The Second World War, vol. 1,
p. 201.

13.
T
HE
S
HIPS
T
HAT
W
ALKED

‘moveable machine gun
 . . . trench’
Winston Churchill to John French, 10 April 1915; Winston Churchill
, The World Crisis, 1911–1918
(London: 2005), pp. 313–14.