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
Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.
So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.
We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm
Is it possible to get another key? I think I've left mine in the room.
Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.
The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He explained, 'The seal has to go everywhere the President goes. It must be displayed upon the lectern when he speaks. The eagle used to face the arrows but I have re-designed it so that it now faces the olive branches ... what do you think?' I said, 'Mr. President, with the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle's neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand.'
I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.
When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.
I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.
I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice.
Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!
If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.