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
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.
If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
The only guide to man is his conscience.
If you are going to go through hell, keep going
The government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war too.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.