Winston Churchill


Born: 30 November 1874 at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England
Died: 24 January 1965 in London, England

Notable accomplishments:
- Graduated from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, 1895
- Served as British Army Officer in India and the Sudan
- Captured and held in South African POW Camp (later escaped), 1899
- Served as Journalist & war correspondent
- Appointed British Home Secretary, 1910
- Appointed Lord of the Admiralty, 1911
- Appointed Minister of Munition, 1917
- Appointed State Secretary for Warand Air, 1918-1921
- Appointed Colonial Secretary, 1921-1922
- Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1924-1929
- Appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, 1938
- Elected as British Prime Minister, 1940-1945 & 1951-1955
- Author of approximately 50 works of literature, including:
     THE WORLD CRISIS 1911-1918, 1923-31 (6 vols.)
     THE GREAT WAR, 1933-34 (3 vols.)
     BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS, 1941
     PAINTING AS PASTIME, 1948
     THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1948-53 (6 vols.)
     A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES, 1956-58 (4 vols.)
     THE ROAR OF THE LION, 1969
- Received Noble Prize for Literature, 1953
- Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, 1953
- Made Honorary U.S. Citizen by President John F. Kennedy, 1963
- Celebrated and reknowned orator
- Amateur painter


Famous Oratory:
In May 1940, as the new British Prime Minister, Churchill addressed the House of Commons and asked for its confidence in his small War Cabinet.  During his speech he said: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."  Below is an excerpt from this speech, which became known as his famous "Blood, Sweat and Tears" speech:

"We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind.  We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering.  You ask, what is our policy?  I will say: it is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.  That is our policy.  You ask: what is our aim?  I can answer in one word: victory - victory - at all costs, victory, in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."

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