50 Quotes About Churchill

It was thus that in 1940 [Hitler] represented a wave of the future. His greatest reactionary opponent, Churchill, was like King Canute, attempting to withstand and sweep back that wave. And––yes, mirabile dictu—this King Canute succeeded: because of his resolution and—allow me to say this—because of God’s will, of which, like every human being, he was but an instrument. He was surely no saint, he was not a religious man, and he had many faults. Yet so it happened.

There was actually a time when people wanted to give Hitler the benefit of the doubt as to his intentions (in 1935, Winston Churchill thought it possible that Hitler might 'go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the Great Germanic nation').

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed...why should we fear for our future?

You talk about a tide of history. Well, there are some occasions when one man seems to stand his ground and just refuses to accept getting washed away. That's how we arrogant Americans won the New World. And that's how you, Mr Churchill, have saved the Old World. But for you, the whole of Europe would by now be one vast concentration camp. Nobody's ever going to forget that.

En un primer momento, el líder principal de la coalición antihitleriana fue Winston Churchill, quien siempre confesó que, de haber sido un ciudadano español, habría apoyado a Franco.

I have lost my heart! … Fascism has rendered a service to the entire world.

By swallowing evil word unsaid noone has ever yet harmed his stomach.

Churchill was an articulatory genius."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

There was much talk about why the prime minister had brought back such a troublesome and unpredictable colleague, and the consensus was that he preferred to have Churchill inside the tent spitting out.