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
It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.
Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations.
It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.
We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.
If you travel the earth, you will find it is largely divided into two classes of people-people who say 'I wonder why such and such is not done" and people who say "Now who is going to prevent me from doing that thing?"
It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.
My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.
Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.
Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.
My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century
Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.
In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.
We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.