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
With opportunity comes responsibility.
I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.
Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.
Never give in, never give in, never give in.
It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
In war, truth is often the first casualty.
It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.
Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.
The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.
Two nations divided by a common language.
Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.
I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.