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
Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.
In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.
The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.
If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.