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Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the son of Lord Randolph Churchill and an American mother, was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. After a brief but eventful career in the army, he became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900. He held many high posts in Liberal and Conservative governments during the first three decades of the century. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty - a post which he had earlier held from 1911 to 1915. In May, 1940, he became Prime Minister and Minister of Defence and remained in office until 1945. He took over the premiership again in the Conservative victory of 1951 and resigned in 1955. However, he remained a Member of Parliament until the general election of 1964, when he did not seek re-election. Queen Elizabeth II conferred on Churchill the dignity of Knighthood and invested him with the insignia of the Order of the Garter in 1953. Among the other countless honours and decorations he received, special mention should be made of the honorary citizenship of the United States which President Kennedy conferred on him in 1963. Churchill's literary career began with campaign reports: The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898) and The River War (1899), an account of the campaign in the Sudan and the Battle of Omdurman. In 1900, he published his only novel, Savrola, and, six years later, his first major work, the biography of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill. His other famous biography, the life of his great ancestor, the Duke of Marlborough, was published in four volumes between 1933 and 1938. Churchill's history of the First World War appeared in four volumes under the title of The World Crisis (1923-29); his memoirs of the Second World War ran to six volumes (1948-1953/54). After his retirement from office, Churchill wrote a History of the English-speaking Peoples (4 vols., 1956-58). His magnificent oratory survives in a dozen volumes of speeches, among them The Unrelenting Struggle (1942), The Dawn of Liberation (1945), and Victory (1946). Churchill, a gifted amateur painter, wrote Painting as a Pastime (1948). An autobiographical account of his youth, My Early Life, appeared in 1930.
From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967.
Winston Churchill died in 1965.


coratge és el que cal per alçar-se i enraonar. Coratge és també el que cal per asseure\'s i escoltar - Winston Churchill
el millor argument contra la democràcia és una conversa de cinc minuts amb el votant mitjà
el polític ha de ser capaç de predir el que passarà demà, el mes pròxim i l\'any vinent, i d\'explicar després per què no ha passat
els éssers humans es poden dividir en tres categories: els morts de cansament, els morts d\'avorriment i els morts de preocupació
en temps de guerra, la veritat és tan preciosa que s\'ha de defensar amb una barrera de mentides
hem de desconfiar de les innovacions supèrflues, sobretot quan són guiades per la lògica
la imaginació ens aconsola del que no podem ser. L\'humor ens aconsola del que som
les escoles no tenen necessariament gaire a veure amb l\'educació. Són principalment institucions de control, on els hàbits bàsics s\'inculquen als joves. L\'educació és bastant diferent i té un lloc petit a l\'escola
no hi ha millor inversió, per qualsevol comunitat, que la de posar llet dins dels nens
només em refio de les estadístiques que he manipulat
personalment sempre estic disposat a aprendre, encara que no sempre m’agrada que em donen lliçons
un presoner de guerra és un home que prova de matar-te i falla, i que després et demana que no el matis