Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

Politician, Writer, Historian

Winston Churchill was a British Prime Minister known for his leadership during WWII and his powerful oratory that inspired resilience and determination.

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Born
November 30, 1874
Died
January 24, 1965
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"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."

Life Humanity Promise
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"[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie."

Lying Want Politician
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"Old men make war, young men fight and die"

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"By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat."

Clever Latin Learning
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"It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind."

Grief Watches Empires
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"Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."

War Men Japan
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"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]"

Theory Curse Referring
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"When a new book appears one should read an old one."

Book Should New Books
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"There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory."

Victory Answers Defeat
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"If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground."

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"It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large."

Giving Advice Spheres
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"If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job."

Witty Jobs Men
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"One ought to be just before one is generous"

Love Life Family
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"The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks."

War Gun Fire
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"Dead birds don't fall out of their nests."

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"The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war."

War Struggle Fog
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"I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same."

War Night Race
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"This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away."

War Home America
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"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."

Letting Go Strong Thinking
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