Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill Quotes

“When Churchill was running for office for the first time, he went door to door to ask for votes. He knocked on the door of an irritable man who, when Churchill introduced himself, said, “Vote for you? Why, I’d rather vote for the devil!” “I understand,” answered Churchill. “But in case your friend is not running, may I count on your support?”
― Gretchen Rubin, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life

“In contrast to Hitler's evil, Churchill's qualities glow bright and pure. Churchill was lucky to have been pitted against one so unambiguously wicked; had history instead paired him with Gandhi, for example, he'd be remembered differently.”
― Gretchen Rubin, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life

“The lay reader, who knows only what the biographer tells him, reads . . . in a state of bovine equanimity.”
― Gretchen Rubin, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life