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
When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.
If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.
[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.
Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.
I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.
Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'
I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.
I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I'd go out to the Front at once.
If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.
I love to learn but I do not want to be taught
When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.
The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss