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
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.
Never let a good crisis go to waste
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
Good and great are seldom in the same man.
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
My education was interrupted only by my schooling.