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Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874-1900 (Volume I) (Churchill Biography) QUOTES

Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874-1900 (Volume I) (Churchill Biography) QUOTES

1 " A great, crude, strong, young people are the Americans - like a boisterous healthy boy among enervated but well bred ladies and gentlemen . . . Picture to yourself the American people as a great lusty youth - who treads on all your sensibilities, perpetrates every possible horror of ill manners - whom neither age nor just tradition inspire with reverence - but who moves about his affairs with a good hearted freshness which may well be the envy of older nations of the earth [Winston S. Churchill to his brother Jack] "

― , Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874-1900 (Volume I) (Churchill Biography)

2 " Philosophy cannot convince the bullet. "

― , Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874-1900 (Volume I) (Churchill Biography)

3 " I am 25 today—it is terrible to think how little time remains! "

― , Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874-1900 (Volume I) (Churchill Biography)

4 " There has of course always been a noisy pacifist or nationalist element in Britain who are ready to traduce the conduct of their fellow countrymen who are helping to fight their country’s battles. Naturally, being silly billies they know nothing of the traditions of the British Army nor in their passionate hatred of their own country do they mind what lies they tell. "

― , Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874-1900 (Volume I) (Churchill Biography)