BiographyType: British politician,soldier, journalist, historian, author, painter Born: 30 November 1874 Died: 24 January 1965 (aged 90) Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army. A prolific author, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his own historical writings, "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values." |
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
People stumble over the truth from time to time,
but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
If you cannot read all your books...fondle them-peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
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