Marlborough Quotes

“It is said by several authorities that on being in the saddle he declared, “This day I conquer or die.” Nothing was more unlike him. Months before in England he had used such words to Wratislaw, and assuredly they did not go beyond the truth. But, arrived at the point of action, it is more probable that he made some considerate inquiry about his horse’s forage or his man’s rations.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1934

“in our human state there is no separation between public deeds and personal psychology, and the story of the one would be incomplete without the other.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1934