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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Also Known As
Birth Name:
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Also Known As:The pug•The Old Lion
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Winston Spencer Churchill
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Charles Maurin
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David Winter
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The Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
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Colonel Warden
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
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Sir Leonard Spencer
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
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Mr Green
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The Right Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
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The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
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The Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill
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Churchill
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Winston S. Churchill
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Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
Why should anybody make a great fortune out of the war? While everybody has been serving the country, profiteers and contractors & shipping speculators have gained fortunes of a gigantic character. Why shd we be bound to bear the unpopularity of defending old Runciman's ill-gotten gains? I wd reclaim everything above £10,000 (to let the small fry off) in reduction of the War Debt.
Of course, when you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
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When I warned them that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Some chicken! Some neck!