Winston Churchill Quotes
Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.
Churchill, Winston. The World Crisis, 1911-1918. Macmillan, 1931, p. 11.
Lev Davidovich Bronstein. The Reds finally won. Many millions of Russians died in the fighting; as many from disease; and even more from the starvation and executions that the victorious Reds (Bolsheviks) imposed on the peasantry who opposed the forced selling of the crops at low prices determined by the Communist government. During this period most of the Russian institutions collapsed. Trotsky, a leading Red, later broke with the Reds and went into exile in Mexico where he was murdered on orders of Stalin.
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.
