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 cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.
He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.
The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!
I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world
It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.
In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.
Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.