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
You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober.
We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.
We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.
What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to preserve against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
What was gunpowder? Trivial. What was electricity? Meaningless. The atomic bomb is the Second Coming in wrath.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
Those who forget history are bound to repeat it
with her factories equipped to the very latest point of science by British and American money.
Thoughtless, dilettante or purblind wordlings sometimes ask us "What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?" To this I answer "If we left off fighting, you would soon find out
The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.
Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!
I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.