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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

• 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.

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• This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

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• To confuse disarmament with peace is a grave mistake.

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• To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

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• True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

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• Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contacts of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.

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• We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

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• We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

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• We make this wide encircling movement in the Mediterranean, having for its primary object the recovery of the command of that vital sea, but also having for its object the exposure of the under-belly of the Axis, especially Italy, to heavy attack.

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• We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom of Europe until they become the veritable beacon of its salvation.

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• We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.

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• We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

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• We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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• What is our aim? . . . Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

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• What is our policy? . . . to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

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• When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.

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• When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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• When I warned them [the French Government] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, 'In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.' Some chicken! Some neck!
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• When I was younger I made it a rule never to take a strong drink before lunch. Now it is my rule never to do so before breakfast.

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