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's quite simple, (public speaking) Say what you have to say and when you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending, sit down
Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put
By being so long in the lowest form I gained an immense advantage over the cleverest boys . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the normal British sentence - which is a noble thing.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself.
Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.
If you are young, and not liberal, then you don't have a heart. If you are old, and not conservative, then you don't have a brain.
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...give us the tools and we will finish the job.
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm.
Please be good enough to put your conclusions and recommendations on one sheet of paper in the very beginning of your report, so I can even consider reading it
Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. Let it roll. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands and better days.