Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, RAwas a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer, and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth30 November 1874
CityWoodstock, England
What is a fine person or a beauteous face, Unless deportment give them decent grace; Blessed with all other requisites to please, To want the striking elegance of ease; Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill Of moving gracefully, or standing
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
The Arabs are a backwards people who eat nothing but Camel dung
The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've exhausted all the alternatives.
I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit to me.
All great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis
But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?
The reservist is twice the citizen.
Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.
Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.