Winston Churchill1874–1965The quotations of
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer
1874–1965
90 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Politics and Clever Jabs.
- My early life, 1874–1904 (1930), Churchill, Winston S., p. 45 (1996 Touchstone Edition)
- Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943 (full text, audio).
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
Remark on rejoining the Conservatives (1923 or 1924), reported in Kay Halle, Irrepressible Churchill (1966), pp. 52–53Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
From a speech given at the Royal Academy of Art in 1953; quoted in Time magazine (11 May 1954).- speech at Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London, November 10, 1942
- United Europe Meeting, Albert Hall, London (May 14, 1947). Cited in Churchill by Himself, ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs (2008), p. 26
- In Great Contemporaries, “Alfonso XIII” (1937)
- Speech in Westminster Hall (30 November 1954), quoted in The Times (1 December 1954), p. 11
- The Second World War, Volume I: The Gathering Storm (1948).
- Speech in the House of Commons (January 23, 1948), cited in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press, p. 154
- Speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri (5 March 1946)
- Remark to John Colville (21 June 1941), as quoted in Andrew Nagorski, The Greatest Battle (2007), pp. 150–151
- The Second World War, Volume IV: The Hinge of Fate (1951)
- Speech in the House of Commons, November 12, 1936 “Debate on the Address”
- On Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, in the House of Commons, November 5, 1919; as cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 355
