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theme
Men with a Theme: Meeting with U.S. naval authorities, Admiralty, London, May 1942. L-R: Capt. Charles Baker USN, First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, U.S. Ambassador Gil Winant, First Lord of the Admiralty A.V. Alexander, U.S. Naval Forces in Europe Commander Admiral H.R. Stark, Winston Churchill, Chief of Staff Capt. Ralph Wentworth USN, Capt. H.A. Flanigan, USN. (Imperial War Museum, public domain)
Churchillisms: Puddings Without a Theme

Churchillisms: Puddings Without a Theme

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"[We are] passing through a period of eclipse which may well be converted into a period of decline. There is anxiety abroad, and can we wonder at it! Why should the Government complain? Look at all they have said. Look at all they protest they stand for…. They have no theme [and] have deluded the masses of their supporters in the country into believing they are about to bring into being some vast, splendid, new world." —WSC

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King
King John signing Magna Carta at Runnymede, 1215. (Painting by Arthur C. Michael, public domain)
Churchill Quotes: “Law Above the King” and “All Will Be Well”

Churchill Quotes: “Law Above the King” and “All Will Be Well”

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"A law which is above the King" occurs in Churchill's "The Birth of Britain" (London: Cassell, 1956). He was explaining Magna Carta, the Great Charter of Freedoms, one of the towering benchmarks of Western Civilization. “All will be well” was a very frequent expression. In South Africa in 1899-1900, the young Winston had picked up the Afrikaans phrase "Alles sal regkom" or “All will come right.” He used both phrases interchangeably because they expressed his sentiment.

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Command the Moment
“Ah Clemmie, don’t go. It is so nice. Let us command the moment to remain.” Statue by Oscar Nemon at Chartwell. (Gaius Cornelius, Creative Commons)
Churchill Quoting Others: “Command the Moment to Remain”

Churchill Quoting Others: “Command the Moment to Remain”

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"Mealtimes sometimes prolonged themselves into three-hour sessions, often to my mother's despair. And so eventually she would make to move. And I so well remember my father looking at her down the table, lovingly and ruefully, and saying, 'Oh, Clemmie, don't go. It is so nice. Let us command the moment to remain.' Of course, one never can. But today I've tried to command some precious moments that I remember to remain." —Mary Soames

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Quotes
How they’d laugh at some of these non-quotes! WSC and daughter Mary, yukking out loud, Bertram Mills Circus, Olympia, London, 2 December 1933.
All the “Quotes” Churchill Never Said (1: Accept Change-European Union)

All the “Quotes” Churchill Never Said (1: Accept Change-European Union)

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Fake Quotes: A-E

In 1686 the Oxford Eng­lish Dic­tio­nary described “red her­ring,” a metaphor to draw pur­suers off a track, as “the trail­ing or drag­ging of a dead Cat or Fox (and in case of neces­si­ty a Red-Her­ring) three or four miles…and then lay­ing the Dogs on the scent…to attempt to divert atten­tion from the real ques­tion.” I apply the term to quotes, alleged­ly by Churchill, which he nev­er said—or if he did, was quot­ing some­body else.

Hence my Red Her­rings Appen­dix, updat­ed here­with, for the new, expand­ed edi­tion of my quotes book Churchill by Him­self.…

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