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Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955; Member of Parliament 1900–1964

United Kingdom · 1874–1965

Politics and public life

About

Served two terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading the country through most of the Second World War. Held office as Home Secretary, First Lord of the Admiralty and Chancellor of the Exchequer earlier in his career. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.

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Question What did you want to be when you were growing up? Identity & self read 234 other answers →
At the end he asked me if I would like to go into the Army. I thought it would be splendid to command an Army, so I said 'Yes' at once: and immediately I was taken at my word. ... I was told later that he had only come to the conclusion that I was not clever enough to go to the Bar. However that may be, the toy soldiers turned the current of my life.
Recorded Chapter of his autobiography, written at Chartwell in 1930, Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life (Thornton Butterworth, 1930), Project Gutenberg Canada, October 1930 source ↗
Question What are you most proud of? Identity & self read 118 other answers →
When I think of the fate of poor old women, so many of whom have no one to look after them and nothing to live on at the end of their lives, I am glad to have had a hand in all that structure of pensions and insurance which no other country can rival and which is especially a help to them.
Recorded Chapter of his autobiography, written at Chartwell in 1930, Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life (Thornton Butterworth, 1930), Project Gutenberg Canada, October 1930 source ↗

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