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 the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.
The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.
There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."
...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.
They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.
In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.
I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.
He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.
The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!
I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.