"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe...All these famous cities...lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow."
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, date unknown
"In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will."
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
"Without ships, we cannot live."
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the importance of winning the War in the Atlantic, date unknown
"Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn."
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the people of France - October 21, 1940
"In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign on Russia, we can already see, after six months of fighting, that he has made one of the outstanding blunders in history."
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill before the House of Commons - December 11, 1941
"The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enourmous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside."
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to Congress, May 19, 1943
"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public."
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, date unknown
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