“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
Letter to Robert Cecil (9 April 1936), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Prophet of Truth: Winston S. Churchill, 1922–1939 (London: Minerva, 1990), p. 722
The 1930s
Letter to Maurice Ashley (12 April 1939) on his work on A History of the English Speaking Peoples, quoted in Martin Gilbert, Prophet of Truth: Winston S. Churchill, 1922–1939 (London: Minerva, 1990), p. 1063
The 1930s
“We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.”
Lecture at Cleveland, Ohio (February 3, 1932), reported in Robert Rhodes James, ed., Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963 (1974), vol. 5, p. 5130; referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression.
The 1930s
On the landing of William the Conqueror at Pevensey; Vol I; The Birth of Britain.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)
Reported in James C. Humes, Speaker's Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous (1978), p. 45, as a remark made in the House of Commons responding to a Laborite speech on the evils of free enterprise; reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
Disputed
The World Crisis, 1916-1918 Part II : Chapter XXIII (Victory), Churchill, Butterworth (1927), p. 544.
Early career years (1898–1929)
In The Second World War, Volume V : Closing the Ring (1952) Chapter 12 (Island Prizes Lost).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
"Election Memories", The Strand Magazine (September 1931).
Reproduced in Thoughts and Adventures, 1932.
The 1930s
“People often forget that in 1940 there was no guarantee that we were going to win.”
This quote is actually from Churchill's daughter, Lady Soames. See "The Beacon of the Western Way of Life" http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=135
Misattributed
Broadcast (4 June 1945) for the 1945 general election, quoted in Martin Gilbert, Never Despair': Winston S. Churchill, 1945–1965 (London: Heinemann, 1988), p. 33
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Speech in Edinburgh (25 September 1924), quoted in The Times (26 September 1924), p. 14
Early career years (1898–1929)
On King Alfred's defeat by the Danes in January, w:878; Vol I; The Birth of Britain.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)
"Hitler and His Choice", The Strand Magazine (November 1935).
The 1930s
Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 10 (The Malakand Field Force).
On the Danish invasion of England in 892; Vol I; The Birth of Britain.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)
Letter to David Lloyd George (13 August 1938), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Prophet of Truth: Winston S. Churchill, 1922–1939 (London: Minerva, 1990), p. 962
The 1930s
Speech https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1955-03-01/debates/ae81a20b-68e7-42d0-8cbb-d9589f53fc0d/Defence#1905 in the House of Commons (1 March 1955)
Post-war years (1945–1955)
The People's Rights [1909] (London: Jonathan Cape, 1970), p. 24
Early career years (1898–1929)
Broadcast (20 January 1940), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939–1941 (London: Heinemann, 1983), p. 138
The Second World War (1939–1945)
… Upon all of us there still lies 'the curse of Cromwell'.
On Oliver Cromwell's policies in Ireland ; Vol II: The New World, p. 232
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)
“I am trying to marshal all the forces I can to prevent this coming war, and to strengthen Britain.”
Letter to Guy Fleetwood Wilson (13 November 1936), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Prophet of Truth: Winston S. Churchill, 1922–1939 (London: Minerva, 1990), p. 800
The 1930s
Speech https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1955-03-01/debates/ae81a20b-68e7-42d0-8cbb-d9589f53fc0d/Defence#1897 in the House of Commons (1 March 1955)
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Speech in Chingford (9 December 1938), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Prophet of Truth: Winston S. Churchill, 1922–1939 (London: Minerva, 1990), p. 1025
The 1930s
Broadcast (19 May 1940), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939–1941 (London: Heinemann, 1983), p. 363
The Second World War (1939–1945)
From "Why I am a Free Trader" (1905), Churchill revised this several times, the earliest recorded version coming from the speech "For Free Trade" at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 19 February 1904:
It is the theory of the Protectionist that imports are an evil. He thinks that if you shut out the foreign imported manufactured goods you will make these goods yourselves, in addition to the goods which you make now, including those goods which we make to exchange for the foreign goods that come in. If a man can believe that he can believe anything. (Laughter.) We Free-traders say it is not true. To think you can make a man richer by putting on a tax is like a man thinking that he can stand in a bucket and lift himself up by the handle. (Laughter and cheers.)
Early career years (1898–1929)
Source: [Churchill, Winston, Stead, W.T., Coming Men on Coming Questions, 13 April 1905, Chapter 1: Why I am a Free Trader, https://archive.org/details/comingmenoncomin00stea]
Source: [Churchill, Winston, Rhodes James, Robert, Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches 1897-1963, Chelsea House Publishers / R.R. Bowker Company, 1974, 0835206939]
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter I
Description of the tribal areas of what is now Pakistan, commonly referred to as Waziristan
Downloadable eText version(s) of this book can be found online http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=9404 at Project Gutenberg
Early career years (1898–1929)
“Baldwin, Stanley … confesses putting party before country, 169-70; …”
Index entry, The Second World War, Volume I : The Gathering Storm (1948).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
The People's Rights [1909] (London: Jonathan Cape, 1970), p. 23
Early career years (1898–1929)
“Like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.”
On playing golf : as cited in The quote verifier: who said what, where, and when (2006), Keyes, Macmillan, p. 27 ISBN 0312340044
Early career years (1898–1929)
“Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein, we never had a defeat.”
The Second World War, Volume IV : The Hinge of Fate (1951) Chapter 33 (The Battle of Alamein)
BBC News story on the 60th anniversary of Alamein http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2347801.stm.
The Second World War (1939–1945)