Famous quotes containing the words churchill and/or ordered:
“I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
“The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had ordered his punishment commuted to imprisonment ... and had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)