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
The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've exhausted all the alternatives.
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing.
If we can stand up to Hitler, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.
Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense
Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Old expressions are the best, and short ones even better
(Sir Stafford Cripps) has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire
Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened.
Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!' And if you were my wife, I would drink it!
One voyage to India is enough; the others are merely repletion