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
Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Please be good enough to put your conclusions and recommendations on one sheet of paper in the very beginning of your report, so I can even consider reading it
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought
Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears
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.
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm.