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
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
I like a man who grins when he fights.