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Quotes from The Second World War — Winston Churchill

1874–1965 England

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57 quotes

I hate nobody except Hitler — and that is professional.

The Second World War (1939)

You do your worst! — and we will do our best!

The Second World War (1939)

The Russians will sweep through your country and your people will be liquidated. You are on the verge of annihilation.

The Second World War (1939)

By its sudden collapse, ... the proud German army has once again proved the truth of the saying, 'The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet'.

The Second World War (1939)

'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering.

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Let me have the best solution worked out. Don't argue the matter. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

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We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

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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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I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

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To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.

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No, bury them in caves and cellars. None must go. We are going to beat them.

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We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

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The hour has come; kill the Hun.

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It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed.

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I believe we shall make them rue the day they try to invade our island. No such discussion can be permitted.

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Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

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The price of greatness is responsibility.

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I salute Marshal Stalin, the great champion, and I firmly believe that our 20 years' treaty with Russia will prove to be one of the most lasting and durable factors in preserving the peace and the good order and the progress of Europe.

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The best way to insure against unemployment is to have no unemployment. ... Idlers at the top make idlers at the bottom.

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What kind of a people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realise that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Winston Churchill (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.