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
If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards the German chancellor prior to the outbreak of war: We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation. . . .
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.
Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.
I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.
A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.
They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.
Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.
A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.
It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.