Sir Winston Churchill (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill – 1874-1965). Prime minister of Britain during World War II and Nobel prize for literature in 1953.

In most of the pictures he appears with his inseparable cigar, or with two fingers raised in a "V for victory" salute.

He said many things, but one of his phrases called especially my attention.

It was said in the House of Commons while the Battle Britain peaked on August 20, 1940. The home front was totally involved in the war because of the Germany bombing raids and Britain was "a whole nation fighting and suffering together."

But special gratitude was directed towards the airmen whose prowess and devotion were capable of turning the tide of the war. His phrase in the Commons was:

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"