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
During my life, I have often had to eat my own words, and on the whole I have found them a wholesome diet
It is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former prime minister of a great sovereign state should thus be received as an honorary citizen of another.
I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit . . . which I most desired to see was the one described as 'The Boneless Wonder'.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything wh
It becomes still more difficult to reconcile Japanese action with prudence or even sanity. What kind of people do they think we are?
It is not given to the cleverest and the most calculating of mortals to know with certainty what is their interest. Yet it is given to quite a lot of simple folk to know everyday what is their duty
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
He said he was like a crocodile. You never knew whether he was trying to smile or preparing to swallow you up.
Please be good enough to put your conclusions and recommendations on one sheet of paper in the very beginning of your report, so I can even consider reading it
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future
I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws.
Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts
He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.