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
One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.
Nothing should be done for spite's sake.
How often in life must one be content with what one can get!
Nothing is perfect on the human stage...
You must look at facts, because they look at you.
Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.
There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.
I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.
Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved
I am too busy. I have not time for worry.
Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.
Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for."
We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.
Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.