356 quotes
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)
If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
We have left the wilderness of phrases and formulas, the cut and dried party issues, and we have broken violently into a world of constructive action.
The People's Rights [1909 (1970)
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.
The Second World War (1939)
Let me have the best solution worked out. Don't argue the matter. The difficulties will argue for themselves.
The Second World War (1939)
Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig! He looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.
Churchill by Himself (2008)
In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
India is no more a political personality than Europe. India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the equator.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
The Second World War (1939)
We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.
I do not admit that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger, even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right.
I think a curse should rest on me — because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment — and yet — I can't help it — I enjoy every second of it.
A letter to a friend (1916)
I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.
I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.
Churchill By Himself (2008)
I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
The Second World War (1939)
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
'I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.'
We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glow-worm.
Violet Bonham-Carter in Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (1965)