Winston Churchill - QUOTES
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24
January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership AS British
Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II.
He served as Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
If
there were no Churchill, the fate of the II world war would have taken another
course.
Churchill
was also known as
1.
A noted
statesman
2.
An orator,
3.
an
officer in the British Army,
4.
a
historical writer, and
5.
an
artist.
On
the first day of taking over as the PM of England, what he said was historic.
“I want to wage war against the monstrous tyranny
never surpassed in the dark lamentable human catalogue of crime.
I want victory. Victory at all cost.
For without victory there is no survival.”
Quotations
1. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the
subject.
2.
Here
is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt...Give us the tools and
we will finish the job. [February 9, 1941]
3.
I
am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have
dared to stop.
4.
I
cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a
mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. [October 1, 1939]
5.
If
we open up a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we
have lost the future.
6.
Let
us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the
British Commonwealth and its Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still
say, 'This was their finest hour.' [June 18, 1940]
7.
Many
forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and
woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, 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. [November 11, 1947]
8.
My
wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage
would have been wrecked.
9.
Never give in, 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. [October 29, 1941]
10. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
continue that counts.
11.
The
greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
12.
Without
tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it
is a corpse.
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