Quotes by Winston Churchill

British prime minister and writer1874–1965

Winston Churchill was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. Many lines credited to him online cannot be traced to anything he said or wrote; the wording here comes from his recorded speeches.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston ChurchillSpeech to the House of Commons, 20 August 1940

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston ChurchillSpeech at the Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London, 10 November 1942

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Winston ChurchillSpeech to the House of Commons, 4 June 1940