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 United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.
Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.
The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.
When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.
Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.
Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.
Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.
I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.
Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!
No one should waste a day.
Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty...