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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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There is less there than meets the eye.
I am shocked by this wicked crime.
The hour has come; kill the Hun.
The Second World War (1939)
Their horse cavalry, of which they had twelve brigades, charged valiantly against the swarming tanks and armoured cars but could not harm them with their swords and lances.
The Second World War (book series) (1948)
It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed.
The Second World War (1939)
The true characteristic of all British strategy lies in the use of amphibious power. Not the sea alone, but the land and the sea together: not the Fleet alone, but the Army in the hand of the Fleet.
I believe we shall make them rue the day they try to invade our island. No such discussion can be permitted.
The Second World War (1939)
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
On his 75th birthday (1947)
I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice.
I think 'No Comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
We must build a kind of United States of Europe.
So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent.
Men who take up arms against the State must expect at any moment to be fired upon. Men who take up arms unlawfully cannot expect that the troops will wait until they are quite ready to begin the conflict.
Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
The Second World War (1939)
I do not like to hear people talking of England, Germany and Italy forming up against European communism.
Nicholas Soames: "Is it true, grandpapa, that you are the greatest man in the world?" Churchill: "Yes I am. Now bugger off."
I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.
The Second World War (book series) (1948)
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and – quite as dangerous ... [I]n war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.
A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The Second World War (1939)
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