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.
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.
Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The stronger the advocate of monarchical principle a man may be, the more zealously he must now endeavor to fortify the Throne and to give to His Majesty's successor that strength which can only come from the love of a united nation and Empire.
May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.
Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.