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
Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.
If you are young, and not liberal, then you don't have a heart. If you are old, and not conservative, then you don't have a brain.
Well, the principle seems the same. The water still keeps falling over.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
It is a gaping wound, whenever one touches it and removes the bandages and plasters of daily life.
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
Those who forget history are bound to repeat it
Thoughtless, dilettante or purblind wordlings sometimes ask us "What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?" To this I answer "If we left off fighting, you would soon find out