Winston Churchill Quotes About Darkness

• I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Broken, Darkness

• I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

  Winston Churchill

  Dark, Islands, Fame

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.146, A&C Black

• The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers.

  Winston Churchill

  Light, Land, Evil

  Winston Churchill (1969). “History of the English Speaking Peoples: Based on the Text of 'A History of the English-speaking Peoples' by Sir Winston Churchill”

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