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
Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.
The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.
Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.