I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes  – Churchill on how Britain should deal with the Iraqi revolution against British rule in 1920

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.  – Entry dated September 1942 on a conversation held with Churchill in Leo Amery : Diaries

To many outside the West, he remains a grotesque racist and a stubborn imperialist, forever on the wrong side of history