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.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
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.
Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful.
Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.
Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.
I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.
Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.
The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them out of their difficulties.
They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.
I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.
He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.
Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.