Winston Churchill Quotes
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
This brilliant statement to lift morale was skillfully designed not to make the polulation too optimistic because there was much bad news ahead. And the Battle of Egypt did not tip the balance of military power. But it was a win for the allies, and the first significant one.
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister (Conservative), Referring to the Battle of Egypt., Speech, Mansion House, November 10, 1942
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Churchill was also well known for his military career and as a historian, painter and writer, and among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature.
