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Schriftsteller, Politiker, Premierminister von 1940 - 1945 und 27. 10. 1951 - 5. 4.1955, erhielt für sein sechsbändiges Werk "The Second World War" 1953 den Nobelpreis für Literatur, "My Early Life", "The World Crisis", "Savrola" (England, 1874 - 1965).

Sir Winston Spencer Churchill · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Sir Winston Spencer Churchill wäre heute 150 Jahre, 5 Monate, 3 Tage oder 54.941 Tage alt.

Geboren am 30.11.1874 in Woodstock
Gestorben am 24.01.1965 in London
Sternzeichen: ♐ Schütze

• National compulsory insurance for all classes for all purposes from the cradle to the grave.

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• Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

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

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• No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

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• No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

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• No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

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• Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

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• Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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• One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

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• Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

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• Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsable and wrong.

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• Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

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• So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

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• Socialism is the weakest of all bulwarks against Communism. Socialists lead people up the garden path to the brink of a precipice and then turn around and say, as they tumble over, "We are very sorry; we never meant to go so far."

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• Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.

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• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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• Take away that pudding - it has no theme.

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• Take away this pudding - it has no theme.

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• The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

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• The candle in that great turnip has gone out.

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