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
Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Unpunctuality is a vile habit.
Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits
Never, ever ever ever ever give up.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.