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
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
If 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.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.