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Political speech14 quotes
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. — Winston Churchill · 1940From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — Winston Churchill · 1946I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. — Winston Churchill · 1939Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. — Winston Churchill · 1940This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill · 1942Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.' — Winston Churchill · 1940All 14 quotes →Historical literature4 quotes
In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill. — Winston ChurchillNothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. — Winston Churchill · 1898If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. — Winston Churchill · 1950There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success. — Winston Churchill · 1898Autobiography and memoir1 quote
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. — Winston Churchill · 1930