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
Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.
If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.
No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.
Maybe" when it seems the entire world is shouting "no!
I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.
Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.
In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.
Life is a test and this world a place of trial.
We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.
From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.
The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.
There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.
More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.
It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.