Winston Churchill Quotes

• The Bomb brought peace, but man alone can keep that peace.

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• There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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• We make this wide encircling movement in the Mediterranean, having for its primary object the recovery of the command of that vital sea, but also having for its object the exposure of the under-belly of the Axis, especially Italy, to heavy attack.

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• I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

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• Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.

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• When I warned the French that Britain would fight on alone, General Weygand told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet that in three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken, some neck!

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• No one has been a more consistent opponent of Communism than I have for the last 25 years. I will unsay no word that I have spoken about it, but all that fades away before the spectacle that is now unfolding. The past, with its crimes, its follies, and its tragedies, flashes away. I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land, guarding the fields that their fathers have tilled from time immemorial. Any man or state who  fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe.

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• Here is the answer that I will give to President Roosevelt… Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

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• No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

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• Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many, to so few.

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• Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: ‘This was their finest hour.’

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• You ask what is our aim. I can answer in one word—victory. Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be.

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• I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped inside a mystery inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a key; that key is Russian national interest.

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• This is no war for domination or imperial aggrandisement or material gain… It is a war…to establish, on impregnable rocks, the rights of the individual and it is a war to establish and revive the stature of man.

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• That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

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• It is alarming and odious to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice-regal palace, while he is still conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor.

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• I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum’s circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited 50 years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

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• The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desparate and vain appeals against the decision of Fate.

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• Mr Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

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• The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history. From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.

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Birth:	30th November, 1874
Death:	24th January, 1965
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Artist, Historian, Journalist, Politician, Soldier, Statesman, Writer

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