Quote of the Day for 2015-12-30

"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies."

— Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Radio broadcast (March 21, 1943)

Migrant Mother, Florence Owens Thompson, nursing her baby. Photograph by Dorothea Lange (Feb/Mar 1936)

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-17

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."

— Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Speech at the Royal Academy of Arts banquet, April 30, 1953

Her Last Supper from the series Her by Marjorie Salvaterra (2014)

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-10

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

— Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Quoted in Reader's Digest, December 1954

British prime minister Neville Chamberlain displaying the Anglo-German Declaration to a crowd at
the Heston Aerodrome on September 30, 1938. Later that day, in front of 10 Downing Street, he would
declare "I believe it is peace for our time." Within a year Britain would be engulfed in World War II.

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-02

"Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

— Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "War Situation," speech in the House of Commons, June 18, 1940. After the fall of France.

Aftermath of the Dieppe Raid, August 19, 1942.