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
The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.
Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]
I'm so bored with it all.
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.
He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath.
A sheep in sheep's clothing.
In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.
I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.
In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable
Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.
I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.