Lord Randolph Churchill quotes

Lord Randolph Churchill quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“This item is a mere fleabite in the ocean of our expenditure.”
-- Lord Randolph Churchill

#Ocean Quotes
“Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right”
-- Lord Randolph Churchill

Source : 1886 Public letter, 7 May.

#Fighting Quotes #Ulster Quotes
“I never could make out what those damned dots meant.”
-- Lord Randolph Churchill

Source : "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" edited Elizabeth Knowles, Oxford University Press, 2004.

#Science Quotes #Dots Quotes
“The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.”
-- Lord Randolph Churchill

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

#Politics Quotes #Duty Quotes #Opposition Quotes
“The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden equally on all classes.”
-- Lord Randolph Churchill

#Class Quotes #Burden Quotes #Parliament Quotes
“Talking jaw is better than going to war.”
-- Lord Randolph Churchill

#War Quotes #Talking Quotes #Going To War Quotes
“If you recognize anyone, it does not mean that you like him.We all, for instance, recognize the honourable Member for Ebbw Vale.”
-- Lord Randolph Churchill

#Mean Quotes #Doe Quotes #Members Quotes
“The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.”
-- Lord Randolph Churchill

#Recovery Quotes #Loss Quotes #India Quotes
“Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?”
-- Lord Randolph Churchill

#Loyalty Quotes #Organization Quotes #Special Quotes
“I have lived 78 years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.”
-- Lord Randolph Churchill

#Years Quotes #Hearing Quotes #Bloody Quotes
“Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.”
-- Lord Randolph Churchill

#Senior Quotes #Army Quotes #Troops Quotes

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