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
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.
The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.
[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.
The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.
Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.
Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.
I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.
In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe...All these famous cities...lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.
A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.
Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.