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
Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.
It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!
A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.
Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.
In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.
The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.