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
Don't argue about difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
Everybody has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.
Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
The Bomb brought peace but man alone can keep that peace.
The biggest mistake that leaders can make is to give people false hope that melts like snow.
Nothing recalls the past so potently as a smell.
It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...give us the tools and we will finish the job.
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself.
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm.