“Le succès n'est pas définitif, l'échec n'est pas fatal : c'est le courage de continuer qui compte.”
Winston Churchill citations célèbres
Citations de la guerre de Winston Churchill
Discours devant la chambre des Communes
Mein Kampf […] the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.
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Churchill ne compare pas Mein Kampf au Coran ; le mot "Coran" est à prendre ici au sens de "livre sacré et fondateur" et est synonyme de "Bible".
Source: voir le sens C du mot Coran : http://www.cnrtl.fr/lexicographie/coran
Winston Churchill Citations
“Je n'ai à offrir que du sang, de la peine, des larmes et de la sueur.”
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Discours d'investiture.
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Discours devant la chambre des Communes
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
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Discours devant la chambre des Communes
Correspondance
“Jamais dans l'histoire des conflits, tant de gens n'ont dû autant à si peu.”
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Discours sur la Royal Air Force durant la bataille d'Angleterre .
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Discours devant la chambre des Communes
“Il vaut mieux faire l'information que la recevoir; être un acteur plutôt qu'un critique.”
It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
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Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time
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Discours devant la chambre des Communes
My Early Life, 1874-1904
Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.
Premier discours à la nation en tant que premier ministre.
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Autres discours
Winston Churchill: Citations en anglais
The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (1899), Volume II pp. 394–395
(This passage does not appear in the 1902 one-volume abridgment, the version posted by Project Gutenberg).
Early career years (1898–1929)
Broadcast (19 May 1940), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939–1941 (London: Heinemann, 1983), p. 364
The Second World War (1939–1945)
On the last years of Rome and Roman Britain; Vol I; The Birth of Britain.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)
Churchill's account of his conversation with President Truman (18 July 1945), quoted in Lord Moran, Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965 (London: Sphere, 1968), p. 298
The Second World War (1939–1945)
BBC broadcast (“The Russian Enigma”), London, October 1, 1939 ( First Month of War (excerpt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Et45bs95I, transcript of the full text https://ww2memories.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/churchills-ww2-speech-to-the-nation-october-1939/).
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Broadcast (7 February 1952) upon the accession of Elizabeth II, quoted in Winston Churchill, Stemming the Tide: Speeches 1951 and 1952 (London: Cassell & Co, 1953), p. 240
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 3 (Examinations), p. 27.
The World Crisis, 1911–1914 : Chapter XVII (The Grand Fleet and the Submarine Alarm), Churchill, Butterworth (1923), p. 399.
Early career years (1898–1929)
“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.”
Radio broadcast http://books.google.com/books?id=_YBkWL9XBfcC&q=%22We+do+not+covet+anything+from+any+nation+except+their+respect%22&pg=PA403#v=onepage to German occupied, Vichy, and Free France (21 October 1940)
The Second World War (1939–1945)
“I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.”
Speech in the House of Commons, July 7, 1926 "Emergency Services" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1926/jul/07/emergency-services#column_2216, responding to criticism that he edited the British Gazette in a biased manner during the General Strike, as cited in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), ed. Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press, p. 152 ISBN 0300107986
Early career years (1898–1929)
Today's Battles. Collier's, 7 October 1939.
Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol I, Churchill at War, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 487. ISBN 0903988429
The Second World War (1939–1945)
The World Crisis, The Aftermath : Chapter XX (The End of the World Crisis), Churchill, Butterworth (1929), p. 457.
Early career years (1898–1929)
Referring to Mahatma Gandhi in conversation with Edwin Montagu, Secretary of State for India, 1921.
Early career years (1898–1929)
Source: Barczewsk, Stephanie, John Eglin, Stephen Heathorn, Michael Silvestri, and Michelle Tusan. Britain Since 1688: A Nation in the World, p. 301
Source: Toye, Richard. Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made, p. 172
Speech in Woodford (12 October 1951), quoted in The Times (13 October 1951), p. 9
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Magna Carta and Man’s Quest for Freedom, JW.org http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102002924?q=Churchill&p=par
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1934/jul/13/foreign-office#column_734 in the House of Commons (13 July 1934)
The 1930s
On the Viking Long Ships, Vol I; The Birth of Britain.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)
Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 9 (Education At Bangalore).
To End War, Collier's, 29 June 1935
Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol I, Churchill at War, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 351-2. ISBN 0903988429
The 1930s
BBC broadcast (16 November 1934) on German rearmament, quoted in Martin Gilbert, Prophet of Truth: Winston S. Churchill, 1922–1939 (London: Minerva, 1990), p. 566
The 1930s
Speech in Cannon Street Hotel, London (12 December 1930) at the first public meeting of the Indian Empire Society, quoted in Martin Gilbert, Prophet of Truth: Winston S. Churchill, 1922–1939 (London: Minerva, 1990), p. 377
The 1930s
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)
To Sir Ian Gilmour on Commonwealth immigration to England in 1955, quoted in Ian Gilmour, Inside Right (Hutchinson, 1977), p. 134
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Interview https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/01/winston-churchill-new-statesman-archive with Kingsley Martin for the New Statesman (7 January 1939)
The 1930s
The People's Rights [1909] (London: Jonathan Cape, 1970), p. 137
Early career years (1898–1929)
“Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.”
Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 2 (Harrow).
Speech at Huddersfield Town Hall (15 October 1951), quoted in Winston Churchill, Stemming the Tide: Speeches 1951 and 1952 (London: Cassell & Co, 1953), p. 149
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“The fascists of the future will be called anti-fascists.”
According to research, it has been attributed to Churchill since the 21st century. A similar variation has been attributed to Huey Long a year after he expired, but it’s unclear if he said it either. Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/04/anti-fascism/ Source: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/9-quotes-from-winston-churchill-that-are-totally-fake-1790585636 Variants: The Fascists of the future will be the anti-fascists. The Swiss author François Bondy attributed a similar quote to Ignazio Silone: This reminded me of what Ignazio Silone said in 1945 soon after he returned to Italy from his Zurich exile: "The Fascism of tomorrow will never say 'I am Fascism.' It will say: 'I am anti-Fascism.'" Alternatively quoted as: When I met him in Geneva on the day of his scheduled return home after the long exile in Switzerland, Silone said abruptly: "If at a future moment fascism will return, it will not be so stupid as to say: 'I am fascism.' It will say: 'I am antifascism.'" Source: François Bondy (1976), "European Notebook", Encounter, vol. 47, p. 51. Source: François Bondy (1979), "Ignazio Silone: In Memoriam", The Washington Quarterly, vol. 2, issue 2.
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/04/anti-fascism/
Source: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/9-quotes-from-winston-churchill-that-are-totally-fake-1790585636
Misattributed
In the House of Commons, February 22, 1906 "King’s Speech (Motion for an Address)" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1906/feb/22/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address#column_555, as Under-Secretary of the Colonial Office, repeating what he had said during the 1906 election campaign. This is the original context for terminological inexactitude, used simply literally, whereas later the term took on the sense of a euphemism or circumlocution for a lie. As quoted in Sayings of the Century (1984) by Nigel Rees.
Early career years (1898–1929)
An exchange (March 4, 1946) with Harry S. Truman aboard the Presidential train in Washington, D.C.'s Union Station before journeying to Fulton, Missouri; as quoted in "The Genius and Wit of Winston Churchill" http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=825 by Robin Lawson.
Post-war years (1945–1955)