Британский государственный и политический деятель; премьер министр Великобритании 1940-1945 и в 1951-1955 годах; военный, журналист, писатель, почетный член Британской Академии, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе.
-History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
-I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
-It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
-When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.