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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic li…
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Born 30 November 1874 · Died 24 January 1965 · Q8016
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This little place is what makes the difference between us and Germany. It is in virtue of this that we shall muddle through to success & for lack of this Germany
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“s terms, he did everything to seek celebrity but release a sex tape. A great question of Churchill biography, therefore, is how this Paris Hilton of British politics became the second coming of King Arthur. What then is the moral of Churchill”
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“This little place is what makes the difference between us and Germany. It is in virtue of this that we shall muddle through to success & for lack of this Germany”
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“We are fighting for England,”
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“Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war.”
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“Winston, you have told me a terrible tale. I would never have believed that such things could happen. I am glad I did not live to see them. As I listened to you unfolding these fearful facts you seemed to know a great deal about them. I never expected that you would develop so far and so fully. Of course you are too old now to think about such things, but when I hear you talk I really wonder you didn”
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“s clothing. I have this on the excellent authority of Sir Winston himself. The phrase was totally inapplicable to Mr. Attlee. It was applicable, and applied, to J. Ramsay MacDonald, a very different kind of Labour leader.”
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“And now go and set Europe ablaze”
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“without an office, without a seat, without a party, and without an appendix”
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“drifted steadily to the left”
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El Confidencial: Winston Churchill, político: "El pesimista ve una dificultad en cada oportunidad y el optimista ve una oportunidad en cada dificultad"
The Objective: Dos hombres y un destino: Winston Churchill y Charles De Gaulle
El Cronista: Winston S. Churchill, militar y político británico: “El éxito consiste en ir de fracaso en fracaso sin perder el entusiasmo”
Eye On Sun Valley: When Winston Churchill Visited California
La Vanguardia: ¿Racismo o incompetencia? La hambruna de Bengala de 1943 que ha reabierto el debate sobre Winston Churchill
Lancashire Telegraph: Details revealed for Churchill-inspired bar including opening date and cocktail menu
19FortyFive: Quote of the Day by Winston Churchill: “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
timesnownews.com: 30 Lakh Indians Dead, One Name Erased From The Tragedy: Winston Churchill
secretldn.com: London's oldest surviving house is the only residential home in the city to have survived the Great Fire of London - and Winston Churchill's signature is etched into one of the window panes
Secret London: La casa más antigua que se conserva en Londres es la única vivienda de la ciudad que sobrevivió al Gran Incendio de Londres, y la firma de Winston Churchill está grabada en uno de los cristales de las ventanas.
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The Economic Times: Quote of the Day by Winston Churchill: ‘It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terro
Fox News: Ghostly outline of long-lost garden at Winston Churchill's birthplace revealed in aerial photos
HOLA: Los marqueses de Blandford, parientes de Diana de Gales y de Winston Churchill, padres por tercera vez en secreto
Daily Express: I stayed in Winston Churchill's favourite hotel room and one thing surprised me
The Guardian: Artist defends Churchill video at National Portrait Gallery after being accused of ‘barefaced lie’
Yahoo: Winston Churchill battled his depression by staying busy, laying ‘200 bricks’ every day
Snopes rated the claim “Former U.S. President Barack Obama removed a bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the Oval Office and sent it back to England.” Mixture.
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Cfr.org: Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech
Chicago Tribune: Robert Schmuhl: Winston Churchill responded to political defeat by linking arms with America
FACTLY rated the claim “The father of Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, saved a young Winston Churchill from drowning. In gratitude, Churchill’s father paid for Fleming’s education. Later on, Fleming’s penicillin saved Winston Churchill’s life from pneumonia.” FALSE.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph authentically depicts then-British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visiting the White House in the U.S. during World War II wearing a “siren-suit.”” True.
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Snopes rated the claim “British statesman Winston Churchill once said, “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “Winston Churchill once said, "Islam is as dangerous in a man as rabies in a dog."” Mixture.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said, “If you’re going through hell, keep going.”” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Winston Churchill once said, "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”” Incorrect Attribution.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says Winston Churchill said, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”” False.
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Fox News: On this day in history, November 30, 1874, indomitable British statesman, WWII hero Winston Churchill is born
Lead Stories rated the claim “Clementine Churchill Did Say Her Ex Would Have Been Prime Minister If She Married Him” Fake Quote.
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The Daily Beast: Winston Churchill Is Still Our Template for Wartime Heroism
The Jerusalem Post Blogs: Winston Churchill in Palestine – 100 years on
Snopes rated the claim “Winston Churchill once said or wrote, "Any people with contempt for their heritage have lost faith in themselves and no nation can long survive without pride in its traditions."” Incorrect Attribution.
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“How heavily do the destinies of this generation hang upon the government and people of the United States... Will the United States throw their weight into the scales of peace and law and freedom while time remains, or will they remain spectators until the disaster has occurred; and then, with infinite cost and labor, build up what need not have been cast down?”
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Snopes rated the claim “Winston Churchill once said that the "fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists."” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding to support the war effort, he replied: “Then what are we fighting for?”” False.
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Awarded Grand cross of the Order of the White Lion presented by Miloš Zeman (2014).
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BBC: Winston Churchill: Defender of Democracy
Died 1965-01-24.
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“Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
Career landmark: death.
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“Gdyby Europa została kiedyś zjednoczona, szczęście, dobrobyt i duma 400 milionów jej mieszkańców nie miałyby granic.”
“Francuzi – uważajcie! Będę mówić po francusku, co dla mnie stanowi wielki wysiłek, a dla was będzie ciężką próbą waszej przyjaźni do Wielkiej Brytanii!”
“The old Conservative Party, with its religious convictions and constitutional principles, will disappear, and a new Party will arise like perhaps the Republican Party of the United States of America—rich, materialist, and secular—whose opinions will turn on tariffs, and who will cause the lobbies to be crowded with the touts of protected industries.”
“For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.”
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
“Dyplomata to człowiek, który dwukrotnie się zastanowi, zanim nic nie powie.”
“Opis: ostatnie słowa, styczeń 1965.”
“For myself, I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else. (ang.)”
“Se Hitler invadisse o inferno, eu, pelo menos, faria uma referência favorável ao diabo.”
“[T]he British workman has more to hope for from the rising tide of Tory democracy than from the dried up drain-pipe of Radicalism.”
“Um pessimista vê uma dificuldade em cada oportunidade; um otimista vê uma oportunidade em cada dificuldade.”
“I salute Marshal Stalin, the great champion, and I firmly believe that our 20 years' treaty with Russia will prove to be one of the most lasting and durable factors in preserving the peace and the good order and the progress of Europe.”
“We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.”
“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
Awarded honorary citizen of the United States (1963).
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When Harold Macmillan applied to join the European Economic Community (EEC), Churchill wrote to his Conservative Association in support
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Career landmark: member of the 42nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1959–1964).
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Awarded Order of Liberation (1958).
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Awarded Freedom Award (1958).
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Awarded Companion of the Liberation (1958).
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Five years after the account of this meeting was published (in The Second World War), Soviet authorities denied Stalin had accepted such an "imperialist proposal"
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Awarded Charlemagne Prize (1956).
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Career landmark: member of the 41st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1955–1959).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.
Awarded Knight of the Garter presented by Elizabeth II (1953).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1953).
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But, after Eden became seriously ill, Churchill increased his own responsibilities by taking over at the Foreign Office
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for Defence (1951–1952).
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Career landmark: member of the 40th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1951–1955).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1951–1955).
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Career landmark: member of the 39th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1950–1951).
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“Opis: w ten sposób Churchill w 1950 wspominał swoje myśli z 11 grudnia 1941, gdy Niemcy wypowiedziały wojnę Stanom Zjednoczonym.”
And the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951, but his support was initially with the firm proviso that Britain must not join any federal grouping
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“Opis: tak w 1949 Churchill wspominał swoją wizytę w walczącej Francji 16 maja 1940.”
Awarded Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Saint Olav (1948).
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In The Hague, where he called for the 16 democratic European countries, "including Great Britain, linked with her Empire and Commonwealth", to start building Europe, aiming at "the union of Europe as a whole"
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Awarded Honorary doctor of Leiden University (1946).
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Won Military Medal of Luxembourg (1946).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion (1946).
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“Opis: słowa wypowiedziane w 1946 do legislatury stanu Wirginia.”
“Opis: fragment przemówienia wygłoszonego w 1946 na uniwersytecie w Zurychu.”
“Let me have your plan soon, and let it be a plan of action.”
Was in America from early January to late March
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Won Albert Medal (1945).
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Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition (1945–1951).
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“a great danger to peace and for Great Britain”
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“Opis: wypowiedź z 31 stycznia 1944 o generale Johnie Lucasie, głównodowodzącym w bitwie pod Anzio.”
“Opis: w Izbie Gmin, 2 sierpnia 1944 o powstaniu warszawskim i Armii Czerwonej.”
“Opis: złośliwa uwaga Churchilla z 16 listopada 1943 na temat brytyjskiego sztabu.”
In January 1943, Churchill met Roosevelt at the Casablanca Conference
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“Opis: wypowiedź z 29 czerwca 1943 o dywanowych nalotach na niemieckie miasta, przytoczona przez córkę Churchilla.”
On 20 May 1942, the Soviet Foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, arrived in London to sign a treaty of friendship
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“Opis: 21 czerwca 1941 w rozmowie ze swoim osobistym sekretarzem Johnem Colvillem.”
Career landmark: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940–1945).
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That "Britain alone would have her neck wrung like a chicken"
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for Defence (1940–1945).
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Career landmark: Leader of the Conservative Party (1940–1955).
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“a preparation for this hour and for this trial”
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“Opis: fragment przemówienia w Izbie Gmin, 4 czerwca 1940.”
“If, with the situation as it is, General Wavell is only playing small, and is not hurling on his whole available forces with furious energy, he will have failed to rise to the height of circumstances. I never”
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“Opis: o Polsce i Polakach pod okupacją niemiecką 1939–1945.”
Career landmark: First Lord of the Admiralty (1939–1940).
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“Opis: słowa wypowiedziane 11 września 1938, przed układem monachijskim. Zwykle błędnie przytaczane jako: Anglia miała wybór pomiędzy wojną i hańbą. Wybrała hańbę, ale będzie miała wojnę. Ta forma cytatu zapewne pochodzi z listu Williama Manchestera do lorda Moyne’a, w którym Manchester streścił w ten sposób słowa Churchilla.”
Churchill warned the government against appeasement and called for collective action to deter German aggression
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“premature and probably quite unnecessary”
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“Opis: wypowiedziane w 1930.”
“united to the British Empire.”
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Churchill stated that Ireland should be united within itself, and also "united to the British Empire
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To the gold standard, depressing the UK economy
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Awarded Territorial Decoration (1924).
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Career landmark: Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924–1929).
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Awarded Companion of Honour (1922).
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for the Colonies (1921–1922).
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Won Distinguished Service Medal (1919).
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for Air (1919–1921).
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for War (1919–1921).
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Career landmark: Minister of Munitions (1917–1919).
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Returned to government under David Lloyd George and served successively as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, and Secretary of State for the Colonies, overseeing the Anglo-I
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Career landmark: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1915–1915).
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Asquith's government introduced the Home Rule Bill
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Churchill sent troops into Liverpool to quell protesting dockers and rallied against a national railway strike
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Career landmark: First Lord of the Admiralty (1911–1915).
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“thought it better to let the house burn down rather than spend good British lives in rescuing those ferocious rascals”
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Career landmark: Home Secretary (1910–1911).
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Introduced the Trade Boards Bill, creating Trade Boards which could prosecute exploitative employers
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When he was critical of the proposed Aliens Bill), and argues that he would never have tried "to stoke up racial animosity against immigrants, or to persecute minorities"
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“Opis: cytat nie do końca pewny, prawdopodobnie pochodzi z wywiadu udzielonego w 1902, jednak dokładne źródło nie jest ustalone.”
Won Queen's South Africa Medal (1901).
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And saw action in British India, the Mahdist War and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns
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“she had been my dearest and most intimate friend during the whole of the twenty years I had lived”
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Churchill wrote "she had been my dearest and most intimate friend during the whole of the twenty years I had lived"
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Won Queen's Sudan Medal (1889).
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Transferred to Brunswick School in Hove, where his academic performance improved
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Churchill's paternal grandfather, John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, was appointed Viceroy of Ireland
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Born 1874-11-30.
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Winston, you have told me a terrible tale. I would never have believed that such things could happen. I am glad I did not live to see them. As I listened to you unfolding these fearful facts you seemed to know a great deal about them. I never expected that you would develop so far and so fully. Of course you are too old now to think about such things, but when I hear you talk I really wonder you didn
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