One
day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly
for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said
at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
Winston Churchill
The Second World War |
The
empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill
|
For
myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being
anything else.
Winston Churchill |
From
Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain
has descended across the Continent.
Winston Churchill
Speech in March 1946 |
Now
this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Winston Churchill
Speech in November 1942, on the Battle of
Egypt |
We
shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Winston Churchill
Speech in House of Commons, July 14, 1940 |
A
love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has
strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view
must come, the world must roll forward.
Winston Churchill |
I
have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of
me.
Winston Churchill |
What
is our policy?
to wage war against a monstrous tyranny,
never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime.
Winston Churchill
Speech in House of Commons, May 1940 |
What
is our aim?
Victory - victory at all costs, victory in
spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road
may be; for without victory there is no survival.
Winston Churchill
Speech in House of Commons, May 1940 |