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
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else
Experts should be on tap but never on top.
When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to preserve against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.
We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.