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
If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.
The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.
I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.
Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.
When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.