Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during
World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill
was also an officer in the British Army, historian, writer, and artist.
He was the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first person to be recognised
as an Honorary Citizen of the United States.
(1874-1964)
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
~ Winston Churchill
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
~ Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
~ Winston Churchill
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
~ Winston Churchill
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
~ Winston Churchill
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
~ Winston Churchill
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
~ Winston Churchill
That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only
by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
~ Winston Churchill
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
~ Winston Churchill
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
~ Winston Churchill
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
~ Winston Churchill
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
~ Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~ Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
~ Winston Churchill
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
~ Winston Churchill
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
~ Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going.
~ Winston Churchill
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
~ Winston Churchill
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
~ Winston Churchill
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
~ Winston Churchill
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
~ Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
~ Winston Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
~ Winston Churchill
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.
~ Winston Churchill
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
~ Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
~ Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
~ Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
~ Winston Churchill
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
~ Winston Churchill
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
~ Winston Churchill
Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
He was one of the most extraordinary human beings the world has
ever known. Born into the family of a Boston candle maker, Benjamin
Franklin became the most famous American of his time. He helped
found a new nation and defined the American character. He was a writer,
inventor, diplomat, businessman, musician, scientist, humorist,
civic leader, international celebrity , simply a genius.
(1706-1790)
