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
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.
No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.
Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.
If you are young, and not liberal, then you don't have a heart. If you are old, and not conservative, then you don't have a brain.
When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself.
Old expressions are the best, and short ones even better
(Sir Stafford Cripps) has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire
Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened.
Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
One voyage to India is enough; the others are merely repletion
Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
My grandfather had the highest regard for your grandfather as a wartime leader,
My grandfather had a very nice phrase about your grandfather,