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.
(Prime Minister Joseph) Chamberlain loves the working man - he loves to see him work
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper.
...Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
The Bomb brought peace but man alone can keep that peace.
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
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.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will
Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?