Winston Churchill was born on the 30th of November 1874 at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire and is a British citizen. He is most known for leading the UK during World War II as a Prime Minister who was elected twice. His birth name is Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, and he was knighted on April 24, 1953.
Until today, he is highly known for his role during the war. While many of his actions during and after the war were questioned, it’s undeniable that he influenced the United Kingdom that we know today significantly.
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He wrote many books that are still bestsellers and are still relevant today. Some of his works include My Early Life, Marlborough: His Life and Times and The Second World War. Take a look at these most popular quotes from Winston Churchill wall posters.
WINSTON CHURCHILL QUOTES
Churchill was born from a prominent family, and he used his mother’s connections to get himself posted in a war zone at the young age of 21. He also got involved in politics and went through many positions in the government before he became the prime minister. With all of these accomplishments, he became a beacon of wisdom. We collected a couple of his most impactful quotes.
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop.”
“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.”
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”
“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.”
“We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.”
“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.”
Winston Churchill was a very prominent person in the United Kingdom and all over the world. He spent more than half of his life in various government positions, in which nine years of it was spent being the Prime Minister. He made a lot of impactful statements that can also serve as inspiration to everyone.
We hope that reading this compilation of Winston Churchill quotes was an eye-opening experience for you, just like it had been for us.
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