However, years earlier the society honouring the memory of the two-time UK prime minister had debunked the idea that the ever-quotable politican had ever said this.
“We base this on careful research in the canon of fifty million words by and about Churchill, including all of his books, articles, speeches and papers,” the organisation said in response to a 2013 article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution which also used the same quote.
“Churchill did say: ‘No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it’,” the organisation said, adding that the prime minister also said, “success always demands a greater effort.”
Mr DeSantis was trailing behind former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and former president Donald Trump in the single digits ahead of the New Hampshire primaries next week. Ms Haley is trailing behind Mr Trump.
Mr DeSantis used the opportunity to endorse the man who at times seems to be his arch-nemesis, and who had dubbed him “Ron DeSanctimonious” and “Meatball Ron”.
“It’s clear to me a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance,” Mr DeSantis said in a video message. “They watched his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance.”
Still, “Trump is superior to the current incumbent, Joe Biden,” he said. “That is clear.”
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By Geeta Pandey
BBC News, Delhi
India's PM Narendra Modi has inaugurated a grand temple to Hindu god Ram in the flashpoint city of Ayodhya.
The temple replaces a 16th-Century mosque razed by Hindu mobs in 1992. The demolition had sparked nationwide riots in which nearly 2,000 people died.
Thousands of invited guests, including top film stars and cricketers, attended the event in Ayodhya.
But some Hindu seers and most of the opposition boycotted it, saying Mr Modi was using it for political gains.
General elections are due in India in the next few months and Mr Modi's political rivals say the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be seeking votes in the temple's name in a country where 80% of the population is Hindu.
Critics have also accused the government of going overboard with what is essentially a religious celebration in a country which - according to its constitution - is secular.
The temple has been constructed at a cost of $217m (£170m) - the temple trust says it's been funded from private donations.
The ceremony, which was televised live, showed Mr Modi performing religious rituals inside the temple's sanctum along with priests and Mohan Bhagwat, head of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) - the ideological fountainhead of Hindu nationalist parties. Only the ground floor of the temple was opened - the rest of the structure is expected to be completed only by the end of the year.
The ceremony, called Pran Pratishtha, which loosely translates from Sanskrit into "establishment of life force", lasted about an hour. Hindus believe that chanting of mantras and a set of rituals performed around a fire will infuse sacred life in an idol or a photograph of a deity.
The temple fulfils a decades-long Hindu nationalist pledge to build a shrine to Lord Ram in Ayodhya - the flashpoint city is getting a major makeover to transform it into a destination for pilgrims and tourists from across the world.
Many Hindus believe that Ayodhya is the birthplace of Ram and the Babri mosque was built by Muslim invaders on the ruins of a Ram temple at the exact spot where the Hindu god was born. The movement to build a temple at the same site was a major factor that propelled the BJP into political prominence in the 1990s.
A protracted legal battle about the ownership of the land followed the mosque's demolition. It was resolved in 2019 when the Supreme Court gave the disputed land to the Hindus. Muslims were given a plot outside the city to build a mosque.
In Ayodhya, some Muslims told the BBC before the event that the day evoked fear and painful memories for them. Some said they would send their children out of the city, fearing tensions might be stoked when the streets filled with Hindu devotees from around the country.
The new three-storey temple - made with pink sandstone and anchored by black granite - stretches across 7.2 acres in a 70-acre complex. A 51-inch (4.25-ft) statue of the deity, specially commissioned for the temple, was unveiled last week. The idol has been placed on a marble pedestal in the sanctum sanctorum.
Since Monday morning in Ayodhya, all roads have led to the new temple. Thousands of policemen have been deployed to ensure security and manage traffic. Saffron-coloured flags of the BJP and those with images of Hindu gods dot major roads, many of which have been decorated with bright yellow and orange marigold flowers.
Some of India's biggest celebrities, including Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, were among those who attended the event.
To avoid crowding in the small city, Mr Modi had appealed to pilgrims to not turn up in Ayodhya in large numbers but to watch the ceremony live on television. To facilitate that, all the BJP-ruled states have shut schools and colleges and declared a full or a half-day government holiday and stock markets are shut to encourage people to watch the ceremony.
The atmosphere is celebratory among Hindus in many northern Indian cities. Mr Modi has asked people to light up lamps and party supporters have put up saffron flags with images of Ram on their rooftops, including in several Delhi neighbourhoods. Film theatres are screening the event, and big television screens have been set up at town squares and in residential colonies.
Mr Modi had called the temple a major achievement and said that the country was "eagerly waiting" for its opening.
"Many generations had looked forward to this moment," he said in a message earlier this month, adding that he would be "representing all of India's 1.4 billion people" at the consecration ceremony.
But a sour note was struck with some top religious seers saying that as the temple was not yet complete, it was against Hinduism to perform these rituals there, and many opposition leaders deciding to stay away.
Some of the opposition-ruled states have also announced their own plans for the day - West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she would pray at the iconic temple to goddess Kali in Kolkata and then lead an all-faith rally. The eastern state of Odisha (Orissa) unveiled huge plans to bring pilgrims to the Jagannath temple in Puri, one of the holiest sites for Hindus.
Authorities say they expect more than 150,000 visitors per day once the temple in Ayodhya is fully ready.
To accommodate this expected rush, the city has been the site of frenzied construction work for months. In recent weeks, a brand new airport and a railway station have been opened, several new hotels have been built and the existing ones have been spruced up.
The government has allotted $3.85bn (£3.01bn) for the transformation of Ayodhya, the tranquil pilgrim town on the banks of Saryu river, a tributary of the Ganges.
Officials say they are building a "world-class city where people come as pilgrims and tourists", but many local people have told the BBC that their homes, shops and "structures of religious nature" have been either completely or partially demolished to expand roads and set up other facilities.
Two explosions and a fire were reported at a site run by Russia's second-largest natural gas producer on Sunday.
The blasts, where a gas tank is thought to have exploded, were reported at Novatek's chemical storage facility at Ust-Luga port, 100 miles southwest of St Petersburg, according to local media.
A statement given by the company to media outlet RBC said they were the result of "external influence" and that operations at the site had been paused.
A separate local news outlet reported two drones flying towards St Petersburg on Sunday morning. Kyiv has not commented.
Yuri Zapalatsky, head of Kingisepp, the district where the port is based, said there were no casualties, but the area has been placed on high alert.
Sky News could not independently verify the reports.
According to the Russian defence ministry, there has been no drone activity reported in the district, but four Ukrainian drones were shot down over the Smolensk, Oryol and Tula regions.
There was also a Ukrainian drone shot down on the outskirts of St Petersburg on Thursday.
More than 25,000 people have now been killed in Gaza during Israel's offensive there, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
It said there had been 178 deaths in the last 24 hours, making it one of the deadliest days in the war so far.
As fighting continued, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again rejected creating a Palestinian state.
The White House has said the US and Israel "clearly see things differently" when it comes to a two-state solution.
Israel began its offensive following the 7 October attack in which Hamas fighters killed 1,300 people in southern Israel and took more than 240 hostage.
In its first public account of the October assault, published on Sunday, Hamas described it as a "necessary step" against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and a way to secure the release of Palestinian prisoners.
Israel's air and ground operation is currently focusing on southern Gaza, where the military are convinced top Hamas commanders are holed up in, or beneath, the city of Khan Younis.
That is where the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had discovered another tunnel, some 830m (2,700ft) long and containing booby-traps and blast doors.
The IDF footage showed what appeared to be a tunnel with mattresses and cells inside - it is where Israel believes around 20 hostages, including children, were held at various points. None were found when the tunnel was discovered, though.
Israeli soldiers have also faced renewed attacks in the north of the Gaza Strip, where Hamas is said to have seized an opening around the town of Jabalia as Israel moved troops and tanks south.
More than three months since the conflict erupted, Israel - whose army far outstrips Hamas's capabilities - is still facing significant resistance across Gaza.
US intelligence agencies reportedly estimate that the Israeli military has killed 20-30% of Hamas fighters, which falls far short of Mr Netanyahu's stated aim of "completely destroying" the armed group.
The classified report is also said to have found that Hamas still has enough munitions to continue striking Israel and Israeli forces for months, raising the spectre of a prolonged war in which Israel could get bogged down.
The apparent slow progress, the fact no top Hamas commander has yet been captured or killed, and the collective trauma over the 130 or so Israeli hostages still missing, is prompting growing anti-government anger in Israel.
Protests are continuing by relatives of those still held by Hamas, calling for Mr Netanyahu to prioritise their release over the potentially impossible aim of destroying Hamas. And a still relatively small anti-war movement is also demonstrating, horrified by the damage wrought on Gaza - one of the most intense and destructive military campaigns in recent history.
Most Israelis have rallied around their flag - but not around their prime minister, who, according to a recent poll, only 15% of the public believe should stay in office once the war ends.
How it does end is the subject of growing disagreement between Mr Netanyahu and Israel's western allies. After speaking to US President Joe Biden for the first time in almost a month, the Israeli prime minister reiterated his rejection of a future Palestinian state.
In a post on X - formerly Twitter - he said Israel must retain "security control over the entire area west of [River] Jordan", which also encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank territory.
Mr Netanyahu has been fiercely opposed to a Palestinian state throughout his political career. But by repeatedly asserting it now, an increasingly unpopular prime minister appears to be doubling down on a view that he feels chimes with the majority opinion in a nation too horrified by the attacks to countenance an independent Palestinian state.
His apparent fight for political survival is clashing with exasperated Israeli allies, who hope that the current bloodshed could force both sides into meaningful diplomacy over a sustainable two-state solution.
UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC earlier that Mr Netanyahu's stance was "disappointing". The White House has said the US and Israel "clearly see things differently".
Antonio Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, went further, calling the refusal to accept a Palestinian state "completely unacceptable". He added it "would indefinitely prolong a conflict that has become a major threat to global peace and security".
UN chief António Guterres denounces Israel for the ‘heartbreaking’ deaths of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
The Palestinian death toll in Israel’s assault on Gaza has surpassed 25,000, according to the Ministry of Health in the territory.
Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said on Sunday that 178 people had been confirmed killed in the previous 24 hours, with the death toll in more than three months of Israel’s war on Gaza reaching 25,105.
The Israeli bombardment began after Hamas’s surprise attack on southern Israel on October 7 killed at least 1,139 people, according to an Al Jazeera tally based on official Israeli statistics. Around 250 other people in Israel were taken hostage by Palestinian armed groups.
Reporting from Rafah in southern Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said there was intense ground fighting near a key hospital in Khan Younis on Sunday.
“Snipers have taken positions in high-rise buildings, shooting people on the street below. People in [Nasser] hospital have no place to go,” said Mahmoud, adding that “It’s street-to-street, house-to-house fighting.”
The previous day, Israeli shelling east of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza killed four Palestinians and injured 21 others, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
‘Heartbreaking’ deaths: UN chief
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres denounced Israel for the “heartbreaking” deaths of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
“Israel’s military operations have spread mass destruction and killed civilians on a scale unprecedented during my time as secretary-general,” Guterres said at the opening of the G77+China summit in the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
Guterres told Al Jazeera that the resolution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies in “the acceptance of the right of the Palestinians to statehood and the acceptance of a two-state solution”.
At least 62,681 people have been wounded in the Israeli assault on Gaza, according to Palestinian authorities.
Some 85 percent of the territory’s population has been displaced, with thousands sheltering in UN-run camps in the southern part of the coastal enclave in squalid conditions.
The UN has said there are “famine-like” conditions in Gaza as around one in four of the population of 2.3 million people face extreme hunger.
Only a fraction of the aid needed has been delivered due to fighting and severe Israeli restrictions on shipments.
Women and children are the biggest victims in the war, according to the UN.
Netanyahu has vowed to keep up the offensive until Hamas is wiped out, with Israel also ramping up fighting on other fronts, sparking fears of tensions boiling over regionally.
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By Sarah Rainsford, Eastern Europe correspondent in Kyiv and Oliver Slow in London
BBC News
An explosion at a major gas export terminal near the city of St Petersburg in Russia was carried out by Ukrainian drones, BBC News has been told.
The blast caused a large fire at the Ust-Luga terminal, but no injuries, Russian officials said.
An official source in Kyiv said the "special operation" of the SBU security service masterminded the attack, with drones that worked "on target".
Both Russia and Ukraine have used drones in the current conflict.
Russia launched its full-scale of invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago, but has made little progress in recent months.
Regarding the explosion near St Petersburg, regional governor Alexander Drozdenko said a "high alert regime" was in place after the incident at the terminal of gas producer Novatek, in Ust-Luga on the Gulf of Finland. He shared a video of what appeared to be a large fire.
Novatek later announced that work at the terminal had been suspended, and said the fire was the result of "external influence" - without providing further details.
The Ukrainians say fuel processed at the plant was being used to supply Russian troops in their war against Ukraine and that this strike "significantly complicates" logistics for the military.
They also describe the attack as an economic blow to Russia, which exports fuel from the terminal.
Russia's Fontanka.ru has published video showing tankers moored close to where the fire is raging. It reports two drones were spotted approaching the city of St Petersburg at about 01:00 local time (22:00 GMT) but swerved sharply at the outskirts before heading for the coast and the Ust-Luga port.
An eyewitness is heard saying the ground shook beneath his feet with the explosions.
The Russian Telegram channel Mash quotes a source saying they heard two explosions before the fire. The channel says around 150 staff were evacuated from the terminal.
Another video - posted on Russian social media - appears to show huge balls of orange fire, a man's voice is heard referring to hearing the buzzing of a drone before the explosion.
Fontanka.ru, usually a reliable source, says flights in and out of St Petersburg had been grounded before the explosions, as a plan known as "Carpet" was put in place.
Russia's defence ministry also said it shot down three Ukrainian drones in Smolensk Region, close to its border with Ukraine, on Saturday night.
It earlier said it had shot down drones over Tula and Oryol, both in western Russia. There were no reports of casualties.
Also on Sunday, at least 25 people were killed and 20 injured by shelling at a busy market in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, Russian-installed officials said. Kyiv has not yet commented on that attack.
That came a day after an attack targeted a major oil loading terminal in St Petersburg.
On Thursday, Russia claimed to have captured a village close to the devastated city of Bakhmut, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. Kyiv has not confirmed the claim.
Ukraine has warned repeatedly that its army is facing severe ammunition shortages, but has set a target of producing a million drones domestically this year.
Russia launched the invasion of its neighbour nearly two years ago.
Creating two separate states is the only solution to ending the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, the defence secretary has said.
Grant Shapps said it was "disappointing" that Israel's prime minister has rejected the idea.
Benjamin Netanyahu's position was not "a surprise", he told the BBC.
But Mr Shapps said Palestinians "deserved" a sovereign state, adding "I really don't see that there is another solution".
Following a call with US President Joe Biden on Saturday, Mr Netanyahu's office released a statement saying he had "reiterated his policy that after Hamas is destroyed Israel must retain security control over Gaza to ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel, a requirement that contradicts the demand for Palestinian sovereignty".
Mr Shapps said the comments were "very disappointing".
"It's not in some senses a surprise - he's spent his entire political career against a two-state solution. But the point is, which other route is there to seriously resolve this?" he told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme.
"Palestinians deserve a sovereign state, Israel deserves to have the full ability to defend itself, its own security.
"Unless you pursue a two-state solution, I really don't see that there is another solution."
He added there were a variety of views within the Israeli government "so we very much distinguish between the views of individuals and our overall support for Israel as a country".
Labour has also described Mr Netanyahu's comments as "completely unacceptable".
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper told Sky News: "Statehood of a people is not in the gift of its neighbour, it is the right of a people and it is the right of the Palestinian people."
Mr Netanyahu's remarks appeared to deepen a public divide with the US.
Speaking to reporters after the call between the two leaders, Mr Biden insisted a two-state solution was still possible with Mr Netanyahu in office.
"There are a number of types of two-state solutions. There's a number of countries that are members of the UN that... don't have their own militaries," he said.
Hamas killed about 1,300 people and took 240 hostages in its surprise attack on southern Israel on 7 October.
In response, Israel launched airstrikes and a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
According to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, more than 25,000 people have been killed in the territory since the start of the conflict.
Also appearing on the programme, Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf, whose parents-in-law were trapped in Gaza for more than three weeks in the early stages of the war, repeated his call for an immediate ceasefire.
Asked if he thought people sometimes placed a different value on Palestinian lives, he said: "Without a shadow of a doubt. If you talk to anybody who is Palestinian, you speak to many people in the Muslim community, they feel that the Palestinian blood is very cheap."
Watch: Grant Shapps warns of 'a more dangerous world'
In his interview, Mr Shapps also said the UK needed to be prepared for "a more dangerous world".
In a speech on Monday he warned of growing risks posed by countries including China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, as well as terrorist groups.
However, asked when the government would hit its target of spending 2.5% of gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of the size of the economy, on defence, Mr Shapps said he could not give an exact date.
He told the BBC the trajectory was "already upwards", with spending "comfortably above 2%", and that the target would be met "when economic conditions allow".
It comes after former head of the British Army Gen Lord Dannatt warned the UK risked a repeat of the 1930s, when the "woeful state" of its armed forces failed to deter Hitler, unless it invested more in its military.
Writing in the Times on Friday, he criticised the shrinking size of the Army and called for the government to commit to spending 3% of GDP on defence.
Challenged over why the size of the Army was reducing if the threats to the UK were growing, Mr Shapps said: "It's not the number of people alone that matters, it's the lethality, it's how capable our systems are of defence."
