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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, 4 Monate, 11 Tage oder 54.918 Tage alt.

Geboren am 30.11.1874 in Woodstock
Gestorben am 24.01.1965 in London
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• If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

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• If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

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• If you mean to profit, learn to please.

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• In defeat unbeatable: in victory unbearable.

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• In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used frequently to take my advice.

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• In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

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• It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent they are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.

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• It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is very important for a prime minister to be right.

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• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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• It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

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• It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

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• It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

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• It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

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• Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon.

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• Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

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• Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and its Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

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• Life is one whole and there's no seperating the bad from the good.

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• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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• Mr Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

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