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Winston Churchill

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Sir Winston Churchill (18 April 1620 – 26 March 1688), known as the Cavalier Colonel, was an English soldier, historian, and politician. He was the father of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and a direct ancestor and namesake of Winston, who served as British prime minister in the 20th century during the Second World War. Life and career Churchill was the son of Sir John Churchill of Dorset, a lawyer and politician, and his wife Sarah Winston, daughter of Sir Henry Winston. Churchill was educated at St John's College, Oxford, but he left university without taking a degree. The main reason of it was the beginning of the Civil War. Churchill was a fervent Royalist throughout his life. He fought and was wounded in the Civil War as a captain in the King's Horse and, after the Royalists were defeated, was forced to pay a recompense fee of £446 (equivalent to around £44,600 in the present day). After the Restoration, he sat as a Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis from 1661 to 1679 and for Lyme Regis from 1685 to 1688. He was also a Commissioner of the Irish Court of Claims and Explanations between 1662 and 1668, and a Junior Clerk Comptroller to the Board of Green Cloth from 1664 to 1679.

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Notable quotes

“[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.”
— Speech in Claverton Down, Bath (26 July 1897), quoted in Churchill By Himself: The Definitive Collections of Quotations, ed. Richard Langworth, 2008, p. 424
“Eaten bread is soon forgotten. Dangers which are warded off by effective precautions and foresight are never even remembered.”
— The World Crisis, 1911–1914: Chapter XVII (The Grand Fleet and the Submarine Alarm), Churchill, Butterworth (1923), p. 399
“The shores of History are strewn with the wrecks of Empires.”
— Peopling the Wide, Open Spaces of Empire, News of the World, 22 May 1938
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
— Speech in the House of Commons (October 22, 1945) "Demobilisation"
“I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.”
— As cited in Churchill By Himself (2008), Ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 128
“He is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.”
— Tito, as quoted in Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (1994), p. 323.

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Notable quotes

“[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.”
— Speech in Claverton Down, Bath (26 July 1897), quoted in Churchill By Himself: The Definitive Collections of Quotations, ed. Richard Langworth, 2008, p. 424
“Eaten bread is soon forgotten. Dangers which are warded off by effective precautions and foresight are never even remembered.”
— The World Crisis, 1911–1914: Chapter XVII (The Grand Fleet and the Submarine Alarm), Churchill, Butterworth (1923), p. 399
“The shores of History are strewn with the wrecks of Empires.”
— Peopling the Wide, Open Spaces of Empire, News of the World, 22 May 1938
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
— Speech in the House of Commons (October 22, 1945) "Demobilisation"
“I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.”
— As cited in Churchill By Himself (2008), Ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 128
“He is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.”
— Tito, as quoted in Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (1994), p. 323.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Winston Churchill: British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965) · portrait sculpture by William M. McVey · bus rapid transit station of the Mississauga Transitway in M · British politician (1940–2010)

Overview

Sir Winston Churchill (18 April 1620 – 26 March 1688), known as the Cavalier Colonel, was an English soldier, historian, and politician. He was the father of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and a direct ancestor and namesake of Winston, who served as British prime minister in the 20th century during the Second World War. Life and career Churchill was the son of Sir John Churchill of Dorset, a lawyer and politician, and his wife Sarah Winston, daughter of Sir Henry Winston. Churchill was educated at St John's College, Oxford, but he left university without taking a degree. The main reason of it was the beginning of the Civil War. Churchill was a fervent Royalist throughout his life. He fought and was wounded in the Civil War as a captain in the King's Horse and, after the Royalists were defeated, was forced to pay a recompense fee of £446 (equivalent to around £44,600 in the present day). After the Restoration, he sat as a Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis from 1661 to 1679 and for Lyme Regis from 1685 to 1688. He was also a Commissioner of the Irish Court of Claims and Explanations between 1662 and 1668, and a Junior Clerk Comptroller to the Board of Green Cloth from 1664 to 1679.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).