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British · 1874-1965 · 20 quotes
British · 1874–1965
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Winston Churchill was the British statesman who led the United Kingdom through the Second World War and became the dominant political figure of the mid-twentieth century. Born in Blenheim Palace in 1874, the son of Lord Randolph Churchill and an American mother, he was a journalist in the Boer War, a naval reformer in the First World War, and the Prime Minister who refused to negotiate with Hitler in 1940 when almost every other option had been exhausted. He also wrote: his History of the Second World War and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. His public rhetoric was the most effective in the language during the century when it mattered most. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm: a definition that described his career between 1915 and 1940 more accurately than any official biography.
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