Taking London Quotes

“If we want to score a victory, we must actively make use of lies. They have to be big. The bigger the lies the quicker people will believe them,” Adolf Hitler stated, coining the term “Big Lie.” Hitler used the Big Lie to spread untruths about Germany’s Jewish population. Dictator Joseph Stalin didn’t much like Hitler, but he appropriated the Big Lie to explain purges of Soviet citizens. In America, almost a century later, the Big Lie is now woven into the fabric of daily political discourse.”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“Despite the presence of the prime minister”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“Be the ordeal be short or long or both”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“So for Churchill”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“The newsman expects to hear boasting and bravado like in the movies. But instead”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“The speech follows the same pattern Churchill uses in Parliament”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“The British people know now they are fighting for their existence,” writes the Standard. “Either we awaken every energy in our being or this soil of England will be drenched by blood and unending tears.”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“You may rely on me to resist to the utmost any pressure that may be exercised by the War Cabinet to send more fighters,” Dowding is informed by his commanding officer”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“Only total and complete understanding is adequate,” Lewis tells him with no trace of sympathy. “You must be able to find your way about the cockpit layout blindfolded.”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“Churchill pointedly refuses to admit the reality that England has its back against the wall and is almost certain to lose its empire and become a Nazi island.”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“Upon sighting the enemy”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“I have never accepted ideas purely because they were orthodox,” he freely admits. “Consequently”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“Winston Churchill now asks the nation to wake up and confront reality: “These are facts. Hard”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“Hitler reserves his greatest hatred for all things Jewish”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“burst of .50-caliber bullets”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“but Great War battle wagons retrofitted with a flight deck.”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“single aircraft can sink a George V–class vessel with a well-placed bomb or torpedo.”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“two-man, open-”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization