We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

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

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Nature will not be admired by proxy.

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.

History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards the German chancellor prior to the outbreak of war: We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation. . . .