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
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
The most important thing about education is appetite.
Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
A nation that forgets its past has no future.