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
A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.
It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.
I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.
Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.
In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.
Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.
Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.
A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor....
A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.
You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.
The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.