[英國]溫斯頓·丘吉爾/Winston Churchill
溫斯頓·丘吉爾（1874-1965），英國傳記作家、曆史學家、政治家。生於牛津附近的布萊尼姆宮。1893年考入桑德斯特陸軍軍官學校，1895年，以少尉軍銜編入皇家第四騎兵團。1945年，在反法西斯勝利前夕，因保守黨在大選中失敗，丘吉爾失去首相職位。其後，他用六年時間完成了六卷本《第二次世界大戰回憶錄》。1951年，保守黨在選舉中獲勝，丘吉爾77歲高齡再次出任首相。1955年因年事高辭職退休，專心撰寫四卷本《英語民族史》。1965年1月因腦溢血辭世。
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.
As the great scroll of history unrolls, many complicated incidents occur which it is difficult to introduce effectively into the pattern of the likes and dislikes of the epoch in which we live.
The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three;and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.
Science, which now offers us a golden age with one hand, offers at the same time with the other the doom of all that we have built up inch by inch since the Stone Age and the dawn of any human annals. My faith is in the high progressive destiny of man. I do not believe that we are to be flung back into abysmal darkness of fiercesome discoveries which human genius has made let us make sure that they are our servants, but not our masters.
Its place in the healing of the sick, and in giving more food and leisure for life. When it helps the strong crush the weak, and rob those who are asleep, it is using truth for impious ends. Those who are thus sacrilegious will suffer and be punished, for their own weapons will be turned against them.