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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 149 Jahre, 4 Monate, 21 Tage oder 54.563 Tage alt.
Geboren am 30.11.1874 in Woodstock
Gestorben am 24.01.1965 in London
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The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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The loyalties which centre upon number one are enormous. If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed. But this last extreme process cannot be carried out every day; and certainly not in the days just after he has been chosen.
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The price for greatness is responsibility.
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
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The Prime Minister has nothing to hide from the President of the United States.
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
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The utmost he [Neville Chamberlain] has been able to gain for Czechoslovakia and in the matters which were in dispute has been that the German dictator, instead of snatching his victuals from the table, has been content to have them served to him course by course.
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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
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The whole map of Europe has been changed . . . but as the deluge subsides and the waters fall short we see the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone emerging once again.
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Ther is no such thing as a good tax.
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There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
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There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.
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There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
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There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies and that is fighting without them.
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
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This is the lesson: Never give in . . . never, never, never, never . . . in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor or good taste.