Winston Churchill

'I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against read more

'I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against uncivilised tribes.'
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Winston
Churchill, Secretary of State, British War Office, 1919, authorising
use of chemical weapons against Iraqis.. in the first of 6
invasions of Iraq by agents of Anglo Iranian Oil (British
Petroleum) in the last 100 years.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the read more

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not read more

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.