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
You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.
Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.
The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.