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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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We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.
The Second World War (1939)
The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
Surely if a sense of self-preservation still exists among men...the prevention of the supreme catastrophe ought to be the paramount object of all endeavour.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
In the twinkling of an eye I found myself without an office, without a seat, without a party, and without an appendix.
Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon.
The World Crisis (1923)
Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be made like this?
I have nothing to add to the reply which has already been sent.
The Second World War (1939)
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
I hate nobody except Hitler — and that is professional.
The Second World War (1939)
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, "Verify your quotations."
The Second World War (book series) (1948)
You do your worst! — and we will do our best!
The Second World War (1939)
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
But if we fail, then the whole world...will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
We cannot afford to see Nazidom in its present phase of cruelty and intolerance, with all its hatreds and all its gleaming weapons, paramount in Europe at the present time.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
The rescue of India from ages of barbarism, tyranny, and internecine war and its slow but ceaseless forward march to civilisation constitute upon the whole the finest achievement of our history.
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