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
To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
A nation that forgets its past has no future.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.