...Churchill asked Sir William Harcourt "What will happen then?" and Sir William said, "My dear Winston, the experiences of a long life have convinced me that nothing ever happens." We hope that things will happen. We want to support things that will happen. Finally, I just want to...

...I, New York, Scribner, 1923, pp. 20-21). In 1895, Churchill said, Sir William Harcourt told him that "the experiences of a long life have convinced me that nothing ever happens." Churchill added "Since that moment, as it seems to me, nothing has ever ceased happening ... I date...

...The World Crisis he recalls how, when he was twenty-one, he was privileged to lunch with the great Sir William Harcourt. In the course of a conversation...to me, nothing has ever ceased happening . . . The scale on which events have shaped themselves has dwarfed the episodes of the Victorian era . . . The...

...conversation in which I took, I fear, none too modest a share, I asked the question, 'What will happen next?' 'My dear Winston", replied the old Victorian statesman,...moment, as it seems to me, nothing has ever ceased happening.1 In the book he wrote about himself when young, My Early Life (1930), there are many such...

...When Churchill asked, "What will happen now?" the venerable statesman responded, "My dear Winston, the experiences of a long life have convinced me that nothing ever happens." Churchill disagreed: "Since that moment, as it seems to me, nothing has ever ceased happening. I date...