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
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.
Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.
At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.
Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.
There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.
If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.
A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.
They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.
Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.