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
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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.
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour
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!
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
My grandfather had the highest regard for your grandfather as a wartime leader,
My grandfather had a very nice phrase about your grandfather,