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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 (1874 - 1965), Second World War (1948)
- The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
- 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 (1874 - 1965), Radio speech, 1939
- Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 11, 1947
- The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, June 10, 1941
- 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."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, May 13, 1940
- So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 12, 1936
- Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), (attributed)
- 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 (1874 - 1965), Speech in November 1942
- From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech in March 1946
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