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
At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.
Watch your character for your character is your destiny.
Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.
Watch your actions, they become your habits.
The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.
No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.
When you're going through hell - just keep on going!
You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.
I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.
I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.
And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.
When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!
No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.
Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.