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
I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.
Go into the sunshine and be happy with what you see.
I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.
There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.
The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.
There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.
Dear citizen, if you were my love, I'd stole your money!' Admin if you were my love, I would ask you for divorce and spousal support!
There's no such thing as a good tax.
Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.
I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.
With integrity, nothing else counts. Without integrity, nothing else counts.
Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.
[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.
Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.