ISSUE: 216
The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star.
- Karl Marx
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Churchill's Famous Putdowns Putdowns


  • An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door was opened, Atlee got out On Clement Atlee

  • I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived On Stanley Baldwin

  • The candle in that great turnip has gone out On Stanley Baldwin

  • He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened
    On Stanley Baldwin

  • In defeat unbeatable, in victory unbearable On General Montgomery

  • What could you hope to achieve except to be sunk in a bigger and more expensive ship this time On Admiral Mountbatten

  • A curious mixture of geniality and venom On Herbert Morrison

  • Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right On Gladstone

  • The happy warrior of Squandermania On Lloyd George

  • Unless the right honourable gentleman changes his policy and methods and moves without the slightest delay, he will be as great a curse to this country in peace as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war On Aneurin Bevan

  • They are not fit to manage a whelk stall On the Labour Party

  • There he stalks, that wuthering height On John Reith

  • A sheep in sheep's clothing On Clement Atlee

  • A modest man, who has much to be modest about On Clement Atlee

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