Winston Churchill Quotes
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Churchill, Winston. The Second World War, Vol. IV: The Hinge of Fate. Houghton Mifflin, 1950, p. 603.
Note that he assumes that not only will there be another World War, but he assumes that we will be on opposite sides.
In one of Churchill’s greatest wartime blunders, he thought up a plan to attack Turkey in WWI despite the fact that almost all the professional naval and army officers thought it too dangerous and risky. Fisher, the Chief Naval Officer, tried to talk Churchill out of it but could not. Fisher turned out to have been right. The result was the tragic fiasco of Gallipoli. When the attack failed with such heavy losses, Fisher resigned and Churchill was forced out of office soon afterward.
There were a number of world leaders who were not happy about the German Reunification. See Henry Kissinger {610355} for another.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Churchill was also well known for his military career and as a historian, painter and writer, and among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature.
