Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG

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Queen's Privy Council for Canada

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England

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statesman and author, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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during the Second World War.

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1874 Born

1901 Winston Churchill enters the House of Commons

1908 Winston Churchill is ordained as a Druid in England.

1940 With the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1940 Winston Churchill, in his first address as Prime Minister, tells the House of Commons, "I have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."

1940 Winston Churchill warns the House of Commons to, "...prepare itself for hard and heavy tidings."

1940 Winston Churchill speaks to the House of Commons: "...the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin."

1940 Winston Churchill pays tribute in the House of Commons to the Royal Air Force: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet at Argentia, Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter is created as a result.

1941 World War II: Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime Minister to address a Joint session of the U.S. Congress

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Quotations

Baldwin, Stanley ... confesses putting party before country, 169-70; ..

Index entry, The Second World War, Volume I : The Gathering Storm (1948)

For myself, I am an optimist � it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London (1954-11-09)

I am prepared to meet my maker; whether my maker is prepared to meet me is entirely another matter.

I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

Roving Commission: My Early Life (1930)

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898)

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG