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
They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
As far as I can see, you have used every cliche except 'God is love' and 'Please adjust your dress before leaving'.
At every crisis the Kaiser crumpled. In defeat he fled; in revolution he abdicated; in exile he remarried.
I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws.
It is not given to the cleverest and the most calculating of mortals to know with certainty what is their interest. Yet it is given to quite a lot of simple folk to know everyday what is their duty
All great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot.
Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. Let it roll. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands and better days.
Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
It becomes still more difficult to reconcile Japanese action with prudence or even sanity. What kind of people do they think we are?
Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will