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
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future
Those who forget history are bound to repeat it
Thoughtless, dilettante or purblind wordlings sometimes ask us "What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?" To this I answer "If we left off fighting, you would soon find out
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...give us the tools and we will finish the job.
I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit . . . which I most desired to see was the one described as 'The Boneless Wonder'.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything wh