Winston S. Churchill libro La Segunda Guerra Mundial
Speech in the House of Commons, June 18, 1940 "War Situation" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1940/jun/18/war-situation#column_52. <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945)
“When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”
Variante: When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
“We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.”
Winston S. Churchill libro La Segunda Guerra Mundial
Speech to the House of Commons (October 28, 1943), on plans for the rebuilding of the Chamber (destroyed by an enemy bomb May 10, 1941), in Never Give In! : The best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches (2003), Hyperion, p. 358 ISBN 1401300561
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Winston S. Churchill libro La Segunda Guerra Mundial
The Second World War, Volume I : The Gathering Storm (1948).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Winston S. Churchill libro La Segunda Guerra Mundial
Speech before Joint Session of the Canadian Parliament, Ottawa (December 30, 1941)
The Yale Book of Quotations, ed. Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press (2006), p. 153 ISBN 0300107986
The Second World War (1939–1945)
“My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement …”
As cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 511,
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Contexto: My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement … Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one’s better half.
“Doubts [can] be swept away only by deeds.”
Fuente: Their Finest Hour
As quoted in the United States of America Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 105th Congress Second Session, Government Printing Office, Vol. 144, Part 4, p. 5738 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nEI6WcjH8ykC&pg=PA5738 <br class="br">Post-war years (1945–1955)
In the House of Commons (18 April 1947), cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (1996), Jay, Oxford University Press, p. 93.
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variante: You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.
Fuente: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 4 (Sandhurst).
Fuente: My Early Life, 1874-1904
