winston churchill Quotes 1
| Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winston Churchill | 30 November 1874 | 24 January 1965 | British | Lord Randolph Churchill | Lady Randolph Churchill | Author, Painter, Soldier, Journalist, Historian, Statesman, Public Speaker, Visual Artist | The former Prime Minister of the U.K, he was an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, writer and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the U.S. |
A list of popular winston churchill quotes are given below.
"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind." - Winston Churchill
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill
"My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked." - Winston Churchill
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Winston Churchill
"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist." - Winston Churchill
"Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill
"It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up..." - Winston Churchill
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." - Winston Churchill
"We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living." - Winston Churchill
"Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is intellectual death." - Winston Churchill
"nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character." - Winston Churchill
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else." - Winston Churchill
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." - Winston Churchill
"Success is not final...Failure is not fatal...it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened." - Winston Churchill