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
Atomic energy might be as good as our present day explosives, but is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears
Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. Let it roll. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands and better days.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
It is certainly more agreeable to have power to give than to receive
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
...Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The Arabs are a backwards people who eat nothing but Camel dung