Winston Churchill

Explore 24 quotes by Winston Churchill

We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.

Winston Churchill

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Topic

Architecture

Speaker

Winston Churchill

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. Speech on plans for the rebuilding of the Chamber. House of Commons meeting. 28 Oct. 1943, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "A sense of crowd and urgency', 28 October 1943, House of Commons." Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches. Hyperion, 2005.

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.

Winston Churchill

Read The Story of the Malakand Field Force at Project Gutenberg

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Topic

Apocalypticism

Author

Winston Churchill

Source

The Malakand Field Force

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Churchill, Winston Spencer. The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War. London: Pearson Longman, 1898, ch. 16.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston Spencer. The Story of the Malakand Field Force. Dover Publications, 2010, ch. 16.

Do not let us speak of darker days. Let us speak rather of sterner days.

Winston Churchill

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Topic

World War II

Speaker

Winston Churchill

Source

Speeches of Winston Churchill

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Never Give In." 29 Oct. 1941, Harrow School, Harrow, England, UK. Speech.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "'Never give in!', 29 October 1941, Harrow School." Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches. A&C Black, 2013.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

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Topic

Quotations

Author

Winston Churchill

Source

My Early Life

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Churchill, Winston. My Early Life. T. Butterworth/C. Scribner's Sons, 1930, ch. 9.