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
Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.
My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.
I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.
You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who made it famous.
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.
Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.
No sky is heavy if the heart be light
No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.
Nature will not be admired by proxy.
We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.
Good and great are seldom in the same man.