Randolph S. Churchill > Quotes

“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]”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900

“At this there was a great uproar. Mr Churchill asked that the woman should come to the platform, and this she proceeded to do. The audience hissed her vigorously, and the complacent smile with which she regarded them in return appeared to cause still more irritation. The Chairman made her sit down on a vacant chair and Mr Churchill appealed again for order. ‘Will everybody’, he said, ‘be quiet. Let us hear what she has to say.”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman, 1901-1914

“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.”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900 (Volume I)

“The First Lord’s early plans met obstruction from the Treasury, particularly when he had to come out in the open and ask for an Air Department at the Admiralty. Up to then he had relied, as he has told us, on ‘various shifts and devices’. In all, he was rebuffed three times before he could get Treasury sanction for this modest but far-sighted proposal.”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman, 1901-1914

“I admit I did say so and I admit that it was a very stupid thing to have said. I said a lot of stupid things when I was in the Conservative Party, and I left them because I did not want to go on saying stupid things.”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman, 1901-1914

“A squadron of Vautours, Israel's longest range fighter-bombers, landed and taxied in pairs up to a ramp. A stop watch was started the second they touched down. Within 7½ minutes the aircraft had been filled up with fuel and oxygen, their cannons had been reloaded with ammunition, ten bombs had been hung from their wings and they were airborne once again. After the war one of the attachés asked General Hod how long the turn-around time of the Israeli aircraft had been. Hod replied that he had seen”
― Randolph S. Churchill, The Six Day War

“The separation of lovers delights the heart of the biographer.”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman, 1901-1914

“I am 25 today—it is terrible to think how little time remains!”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900 (Volume I)

“For Free Trade or against it! There is no halfway house for timid retaliators to shelter in…. This North-West division of Manchester… is mainly Unionist rather than Liberal, and it is only by the absolutely straight voting of every Free Trade Unionist that the election of the Free Trade candidate, Mr Winston Churchill, can be assured. This, no doubt, means some sacrifices. We do not agree with Mr Churchill on all points; we do not approve of everything he has said—but I hope no Free Trade Unionist will allow any personal feeling on such points to prevent him from supporting in this election the great cause of Free Trade, of which Mr Churchill is a most able and courageous champion.”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman, 1901-1914

“I shall have to stiffen the administration and the Aliens Act a little, and more effective measures must be taken by the police to supervise the dangerous classes of aliens in our midst…. Churchill”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman, 1901-1914

“Philosophy cannot convince the bullet.”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900 (Volume I)

“The Duke of Devonshire had recently made an important speech in favour of Free Trade at Rawtenstall. Churchill went on in his letter: ‘Fancy The Times boycotting the old Duke’s speech. What blackguards the Protectionist Press are.’ He was a little naïve at this time about the habits of the Press from The Times downwards.”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman, 1901-1914

“whenever”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900

“The King was one of the first to bring up the question. ‘He hopes,’ wrote his private secretary Sir Arthur Bigge, on 5 January 1911 ‘that these outrages by foreigners will lead you to consider whether the Aliens Act could not be amended so as to prevent London from being infested with men and women whose presence would not be tolerated in any other country.”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman, 1901-1914

“Thirty-five years later Stanley Baldwin was to attack some left-wing members of the Tory Party, such as Harold Macmillan and Robert Boothby, when they were associating rather closely with Lloyd George, for ‘hunting with packs other than their own’. The Hooligans could have been attacked on similar grounds. Such records as survive seem to suggest that they spent far more of their time with the right wing of the Liberal Party than they did with their Tory colleagues.”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman, 1901-1914

“Churchill on January 19 circulated to his Cabinet colleagues a draft bill which contained the following principal provisions: 1. An alien convicted of an offence was to be considered liable to expulsion. 2. Penalties for harbouring illegal immigrants to be increased. 3. Aliens to require special permission to carry fire-arms. He”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman, 1901-1914

“And the great Liberal party which in 1882 was vigorous, united, supreme, is shrunk to a few discordant factions of discredited faddists, without numbers, without policy, without concord, without cohesion, around whose necks is bound the millstone of Home Rule. Indeed,”
― Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman, 1901-1914