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
It would not have been possible for any man in public life to get through what I have gone through without the devoted assistance of what we in England call one's better half.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
If we can stand up to Hitler, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.
Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts
The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.
The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.
Keep calm and carry on.
The true guide of life is to do what is right.
No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.
Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.