Winston Churchill

Let no one swerve off the high road of truth and honour.

Winston Churchill

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

Winston Churchill

Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.

Winston Churchill

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years men will still say ‘This was their finest hour’.

Winston Churchill

Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.

Winston Churchill

London had heavy attacks on the sixteenth and seventeenth; over twenty-three hundred people were killed, more than three thousand seriously injured.

Winston Churchill

Make sure that the beer – four pints a week – goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

Winston Churchill

More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

Winston Churchill

My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement….

Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Winston Churchill