[allmendream]

“Churchill has spent the best years of his life preparing impromptu remarks.” F.E. Smith First Earl of Birkenhead

As to the subject at hand, the Earl had THIS to say - though no doubt he was joking.

A 1924 entry in Evelyn Waugh’s diary states that an English High Court judge presiding in a sodomy case sought advice on sentencing from Lord Birkenhead. “Could you tell me,” he asked, “what do you think one ought to give a man who allows himself to be buggered?” Birkenhead replied without hesitation, “Oh, thirty shillings or two pounds; whatever you happen to have on you.”

[Little Ray]

Well, I can say the Mr. Churchill used his time preparing impromptu remarks to good effect...