Distinguished painter, Nobel Prize for literature, brave soldier, officer, journalist, committed politician, deputy, minister, prime minister, great speaker, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was above all the man who stood alone against Hitler and the nazism leading all the English people united behind him until the final victory. “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
His national funeral in 1965 gave rise to the largest gathering of heads of state ever renewed since.
He is considered alongside Einstein as one of the most important personalities of the 20th century.
“Democracy is the worst system except all the others.”
“I’m always ready to learn, although I don’t always like being taught lessons.”
“It is a beautiful thing to be honest, but it is also important to be right.”
“We live by what we get. You build your life on what you give. ”
“If two men still hold the same opinion, one of them is too many.”
“To improve, you have to change. So, to be perfect, you have to change often.”
“A good politician is one who is able to predict the future and who is also able to explain why things did not happen as he predicted.”
“I got more out of alcohol than alcohol got out of it.”
“The secret of my vitality? I only have red blood cells in my blood: alcohol has killed all my white blood cells for a long time. ”
“I am ready to meet my Creator. Whether he is prepared for the test of seeing me is another story. ”
