Winston Churchill , who died 50 years ago today , once order , “ For my part , I consider that it will be ascertain much better by all parties to go out the past to history , especially as I purpose to write that chronicle myself . ” Mission accomplish .
1 . " I wish squealer . Cats look down on you ; dogs look up to you ; but pigs care for you like an equal . "
— recount by Churchill ’s former secretary Anthony Montague Browne .
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2 . " We have not journey all this manner across the one C , across the sea , across the mountain , across the prairies , because we are made of boodle candy . "
— To the Canadian House of Commons , December 30 1941
3 . " History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the lead of the past , trying to construct its scene , to revive its echoes , and kindle with pale lambency the passion of former days . "
— To the House of Commons , November 12 , 1940
4 . " [ I]t has been said that majority rule is the sorry form of Government except all those other word form that have been try from time to prison term . "
— To the House of Commons , November 11 , 1947
5 . " If you have an important point to make , do n’t seek to be subtle or canny . Use a pile driver . Hit the point once . Then come back and strike it again . Then hit it a third time . "
— Advice to the Prince of Wales , future king Edward VIII 1919
6 . " For myself , I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else . "
— Speech at the Lord Mayor ’s banquet in London , November 9 , 1954
7 . " Now we have ' adequacy . ' What is sufficiency ? Adequacy is no standard at all . It is simply what His Majesty ’s Ministers at any given consequence , review what they have got , pick out to say is adequate .
— To the House of Commons , November 17 , 1938
8 . " Never give in , never give in , never , never , never , never — in nothing , smashing or small , large or fiddling — never give in except to strong belief of accolade and right common sense . "
— To Harrow School , October 29 , 1941
9 . " It is a misapprehension to appear too far ahead . Only one data link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time . "
— To the House of Commons , February 27 , 1945
10 . " In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words , and I must profess that I have always found it a wholesome diet . "
— tell by Lord Norman Brook in Working with Churchill
