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
Nothing would induce me to vote for giving women the franchise. I am not going to be henpecked into a question of such importance.
If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large.
I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.
You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.
Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.
The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.
Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.
Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!
Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.
Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.
The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.
Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.