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
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.
I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.
You do your worst, and we'll do our best.
You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.
Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.
An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.
If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both
It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State
There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it
There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.
An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.
Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.