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
Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.
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.
I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire
I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot.
Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.