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 are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.
My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.
A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.
Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.
The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.