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 better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.
There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back.
Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.
Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.
The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.
Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.
The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.
You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.
The true guide of life is to do what is right.
Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.
There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate.
I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.
Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!
The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.