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
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?
Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
The most important thing about education is appetite.
Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.