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
He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
...Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
It would not have been possible for any man in public life to get through what I have gone through without the devoted assistance of what we in England call one's better half.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
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
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
(Prime Minister Joseph) Chamberlain loves the working man - he loves to see him work
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper.
The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've exhausted all the alternatives.
Success is bounding from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
It's quite simple, (public speaking) Say what you have to say and when you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending, sit down
Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.