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
The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.
Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.
Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.
Science should be on tap, not on top.
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Maybe" when it seems the entire world is shouting "no!
Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn.
Never run away from anything. Never!
I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.
The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.
... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for all time-or for whatever time may be left to us. Nature ... is a prodigal of pain. I should like to find a day when we can take a holiday, a day of jubilation when we can fête good Saint Anaesthesia and chaste and pure Saint Antiseptic. ... I should be bound to celebrate, among others, Saint Penicillin...
[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.
The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short. Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.
There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.