Winston S. Churchill
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born
November 30, 1874
died
January 24, 1965
gender
male
place of birth
Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
genre
History
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874–24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army. A prolific author, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his own historical writings, "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."
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quotes by Winston S. Churchill
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
— Winston S. Churchill
— Winston S. Churchill
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill
— Winston S. Churchill
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
— Winston S. Churchill
— Winston S. Churchill
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