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1874–1965 England
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG OM CH TD FRS PC (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history.
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Success always demands a greater effort.
A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.
It is an extraordinary event, a monstrous event, an event which stands in singular and sinister isolation.
If the result is inconclusive, the conflict will be renewed after an uneasy interval.
We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.
No compromise on the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong -- that is the Declaration of July 4th, 1918.
The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.
Taxes are an evil—a necessary evil, but still an evil, and the fewer of them we have the better.
If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
The Second World War (1939)
The Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.
The Second World War (1939)
A free Press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that freemen prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.
All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: Freedom; Justice; Honour; Duty; Mercy; Hope.
War arises from both sides feeling they have a hope of victory.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
The Second World War (1939)
The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes, there has never been peace in the world; and before history began, murderous strife was universal and unending.
The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
The Second World War (1939)
I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)
I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf.
While England Slept (1938)
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