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 was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.
This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.
God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.
How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.
My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.
There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.
I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.
It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.
At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.
The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.
There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."
...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.
They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.
In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.