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I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1939

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1941

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Sir Winston Churchill, Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9

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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill, Second World War (1948)

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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943

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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Churchill, speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954

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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in March 1946

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in November 1942

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940

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A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944

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.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 1941, Harrow School

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