Winston Churchill Quotes

British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)

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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. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, though he was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.

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Birth Name: Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Also Known As: The pug • The Old Lion

Alternative Names: Winston Spencer Churchill • Charles Maurin • David Winter • The Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill • Colonel Warden • Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill • Sir Leonard Spencer • Sir Winston Churchill • Sir Winston Spencer Churchill • Mr Green • The Right Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill • The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill • The Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill • Churchill • Winston S. Churchill • Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill • Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the
people.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

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... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.

It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

Success always demands a greater effort.

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.