Winston Churchill
From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation, search Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (1874-11-30 – 1965-01-24) was a British politician, best known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He was Prime Minister of the UK from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.
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On childhood and youth
- She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly — but at a distance.
- On his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 1 (Childhood)
- Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
- My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 1 (Childhood)
- Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.
- On studying English rather than Latin at school, My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 2 (Harrow)
- Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested.
- My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 2 (Harrow)
- I then had one of the three or four long intimate conversations with him which are all I can boast.
- On his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 3 (Examinations)
- In retrospect these years form not only the least agreeable, but the only barren and unhappy period of my life. I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I have been happier every year since I became a man. But this interlude of school makes a sombre grey patch upon the chart of my journey. It was an unending spell of worries that did not then seem petty, of toil uncheered by fruition; a time of discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony. This train of thought must not lead me to exaggerate the character of my school days ... Harrow was a very good school ... Most of the boys were very happy ... I can only record the fact that, no doubt through my own shortcomings, I was an exception. ... I was on the whole considerably discouraged ... All my contemporaries and even younger boys seemed in every way better adapted to the conditions of our little world. They were far better both at the games and at the lessons. It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.
- My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 3 (Examinations)
- Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of Society is not natural to mankind. It cuts against the grain. A boy would like to follow his father in pursuit of food or prey. He would like to be doing serviceable things so far as his utmost strength allowed. He would like to be earning wages however small to help to keep up the home. He would like to have some leisure of his own to use or misuse as he pleased. He would ask little more than the right to work or starve. And then perhaps in the evenings a real love of learning would come to those who are worthy – and why try to stuff in those who are not? – and knowledge and thought would open the ‘magic casements’ of the mind.
- My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 3 (Examinations)
- Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.
- My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 4 (Sandhurst), p. 72
- You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
- My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 4 (Sandhurst)
- I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.
- My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 5 (The Fourth Hussars)
- I have no doubt that the Romans planned the time-table of their days far better than we do. They rose before the sun at all seasons. Except in wartime we never see the dawn. Sometimes we see sunset. The message of sunset is sadness; the message of dawn is hope. The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even play, from eight o’clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.
- My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 6 (Cuba)
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