Winston Churchill Quotes
Quotebunny has 152 quotations by Winston Churchill.
“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”
“Eating words has never given me indigestion.”
“Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
“Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.”
“For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.”
“For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.”
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”
“Great and good are seldom the same man.”
“He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
“History is written by the victors.”
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
“I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.”
“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”
“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”
“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
Winston Churchill Bio:
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, FRS (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) 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, an historian, writer and artist. To date, he is the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the second person to be recognised as an Honorary Citizen of the United States.
During his army career, Churchill saw military action in India, the Sudan and the Second Boer War. He gained fame and notoriety as a war correspondent and through contemporary books he wrote describing the campaigns. He also served briefly in the British Army on the Western Front in World War I, commanding the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers.
At the forefront of the political scene for almost fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of the Asquith Liberal government. During the war he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign caused his departure from government. He returned as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Air. In the interwar years, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Conservative government.
After the outbreak of the Second World War, Churchill was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on 10 May 1940, he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and led Britain to victory against the Axis powers. Churchill was always noted for his speeches, which became a great inspiration to the British people and to the embattled Allied forces.
After losing the 1945 election, he became Leader of the Opposition. In 1951 he again became Prime Minister, before finally retiring in 1955. Upon his death, the Queen granted him the honour of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest assemblies of statesmen in the world.
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