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
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.
There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.
You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.
Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.
The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.