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.
- From a conversational exchange with Harold Begbie, as cited in Master Workers, Begbie, Methuen & Co. (1906), p. 177.
- The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953-1959, London: Cassell (1961), p. 324, Woodford, Essex, (1959, 29 September)
- BBC broadcast (“The Russian Enigma”), London, October 1, 1939 (partial text, transcript of the “First Month of War” speech).
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. 52–53- speech at Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London, November 10, 1942
- Speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri (5 March 1946)
- The Second World War, Volume 1, The Gathering Storm, Mariner Books (1985), pp. 13-14. First published in 1948.





