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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.

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Quotes from Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

—Winston Churchill

conflict

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

—Winston Churchill

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

—Winston Churchill

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

—Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

—Winston Churchill

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

—Winston Churchill

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

—Winston Churchill

achievement wind kites

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

—Winston Churchill

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else..

—Winston Churchill

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

—Winston Churchill

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

—Winston Churchill

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

—Winston Churchill

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

—Winston Churchill

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

—Winston Churchill

Never, never, never give up.

—Winston Churchill