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
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.
When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.
A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.
I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
The maxim of the British people is; Business as Usual!
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.
We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.
The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilization.
The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.
In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign on Russia, we can already see, after six months of fighting, that he has made one of the outstanding blunders in history.