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
Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.
It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.
There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.
Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
An iron curtain has descended over Europe.
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.
A joke is a very serious thing.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.