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.
- “The Defence of Freedom and Peace (The Lights are Going Out)”, radio broadcast to the United States and to London (16 October 1938).
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Speech in the House of Commons (20 August 1940)How many wars have been averted by patience and persisting good will!
The Second World War, Volume I: The Gathering Storm (1948) Chapter 17 (The Tragedy of Munich), p .287The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.
Speech to the Royal College of Physicians, London (2 March 1944)- ‘Armistice—or Peace?’ (11 November 1937), quoted in Winston Churchill, Step by Step, 1936–1939 (1939; 1947), p. 174
- Speech in the House of Commons, June 18, 1940 “War Situation”.
- Speech at Kinnaird Hall, Dundee, Scotland (“Unemployment”), October 10, 1908, in Liberalism and the Social Problem (1909), Churchill, Echo Library (2007), p. 87
- Speech to the Cabinet (28 May 1940), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939–1941 (1983), p. 420
- As quoted in Richard M. Langworth (ed.), Churchill by Himself (2008)
- The Second World War, Volume 1, The Gathering Storm, Mariner Books (1985), pp. 13-14. First published in 1948.
She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly — but at a distance.
My Early Life (1930), Ch. 1, on his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill- Speech in the House of Commons, November 12, 1936 “Debate on the Address”, criticizing Stanley Baldwin’s record on rearmament against Hitler.
- Speech in the House of Commons (4 June 1940)
- Speech at the Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London (10 November 1942)
- Speech in the House of Commons on becoming Prime Minister (13 May 1940)
