Best Winston Churchill Quotes

Jardine Crombie

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Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill: one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century; talented painter and prolific writer; gifted and charismatic orator; in 2002 voted the Greatest Briton of all time... Here is a collection of his best quotes, some witty, others profound.

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• Publié par: Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited
• Date de parution: 10 février 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781291319910
• Langue: English

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WINSTON CHURCHILL
1874-1965
 
 
Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire to the British politician Lord Randolph Churchill and Jennie Jerome, the daughter of an American millionaire.
 
Churchill was educated at Harrow, then attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst before joining the Army. In 1899, after leaving the army, he worked as a newspaper correspondent for the Morning Post . He hit the headlines himself when he was captured whilst reporting on the Boer War in South Africa and then escaped from a prisoner of war camp, returning home a hero.
 
He became a Conservative member of Parliament in 1900 but in 1904, disillusioned with his party, he joined the Liberals. When the Liberals won the 1905 election, Churchill became Under Secretary at the Colonial Office. In 1908 he was President of the Board of Trade, and in 1910 he became Home Secretary. From 1911 Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty until 1915 when he was held responsible for the ill-fated Dardanelles disaster of World War I. He rejoined the Army to fight until his unit was disbanded in 1916.
 
By 1917 Churchill was back in government as Minister for Munitions, before serving under David Lloyd George as Minister of War and Air (1919-20). He left the Liberal party in 1922, when he lost his seat for Dundee in the election. He officially rejoined the Conservative party in 1925, and from 1924 until 1929 served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. When the Conservatives lost power in 1929, Churchill turned to his writing in what is commonly referred to as his wilderness years.
 
A talented painter and a prolific writer, Churchill published many books in his lifetime, including: a biography of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill (2 volumes, 1906), The World Crisis (5 volumes, 6 parts, 1923-31), Marlborough: His Life and Times (4 volumes, 1933-38), The Second World War (6 volumes, 1948-53), and A History of the English-speaking Peoples (4 volumes, 1956-58). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.
 
In the 1930s Churchill had been speaking out against the rise of Nazi Germany and Hitler. So when World War II broke out, he was recalled: he was appointed First Lord Admiralty and then, upon Neville Chamberlain’s resignation in 1940, he became Prime Minister. A great wartime leader, his dogged determination in the face of adversity and his powerful speeches and radio interviews did much to give the British people hope during this dark time.
 
He was to serve as Prime Minister twice: from November 1940 until July 1945, then again from 1951 to 1955.