Now this is not the end. It is perhaps the end of the beginning — Winston Churchill

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

Source: Speech at the Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London, 10 November 1942
Written: 1942

About this quotation

Churchill spoke after the British victory at El Alamein and the Allied landings in North Africa. He was careful to say that the war was far from won.

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