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
Winston Churchill quotes about
Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.
Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.
People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.
[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.
I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.
Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!
Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.
With integrity, nothing else counts. Without integrity, nothing else counts.
I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.
There's no such thing as a good tax.
Dear citizen, if you were my love, I'd stole your money!' Admin if you were my love, I would ask you for divorce and spousal support!
There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.
There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.
I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.