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
Well, the principle seems the same. The water still keeps falling over.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything wh
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.
It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.
Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.
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.