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
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour
I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire
All great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.
I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.
If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.
The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss
The Times is speechless, and it takes three columns to express its speechlessness
I shall always be glad to have seen it-for the same reason Papa gave for being glad to have seen Lisbon-namely, "that it will be unnecessary ever to see it again.
It would not have been possible for any man in public life to get through what I have gone through without the devoted assistance of what we in England call one's better half.
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.