Winston Churchill Quotes About Wwii

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  You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

  Winston Churchill

  Determination, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

• We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Strength, Beach

  Hansard 4 June 1940, col. 796

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Speech at Mansion House, London, 10 Nov. 1942.

• Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]

  Winston Churchill

  Reality, Genuine Love, Evil

• This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Time, Not Giving Up

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

• We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

  Winston Churchill

  War, Victory, World

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

  Winston Churchill

  Giving Up, Government, Blood

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

• We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.

  Winston Churchill

  Memorial Day, Beach, Military

  Winston Churchill's speech to the House of Commons, history.hanover.edu. June 4, 1940.

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