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.
Winston Churchill
Born: November 30, 1874 Died: January 24, 1965
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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Alternative Names for Winston Churchill
Birth name - Original name given at birth:
- Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (English (en))
Alternate spelling - Different orthographic variant:
- Winston S. Churchill (English (en))
Formal name - Full ceremonial or official name including titles and honorifics:
- Sir Winston Churchill (English (en))
- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG OM CH TD FRS PC (English (en))
We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
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They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;
In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in “However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.
I'm bored with it all.
- Last Words
During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.