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
[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.
Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.
Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.
England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.
...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?
If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.
The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.
Nothing is won without enthusiasm.
Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? And why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings and help to shape the onward destinies of men?
The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.
I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.
Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.
We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.
It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.