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
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.