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
Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
By being so long in the lowest form I gained an immense advantage over the cleverest boys . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the normal British sentence - which is a noble thing.
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.
Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.
I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.
Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.
The Bomb brought peace but man alone can keep that peace.
The biggest mistake that leaders can make is to give people false hope that melts like snow.
Nothing recalls the past so potently as a smell.
Nothing would induce me to vote for giving women the franchise. I am not going to be henpecked into a question of such importance.
The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.