On this day in 1940...

Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister.  His reign as prime minister paved the way for a restoration of Britain's national pride and worldwide sales of the book, Awesome Quotes not Said by Mark Twain.*

*Quotes Attributed to Winnie:

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A joke is a very serious thing.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
 
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
 
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
 
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
 
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
 
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
 
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
 
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
 
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
 
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.