Never give in! : the best of Winston Churchill's speeches

Content: 1. Young Statesman 1897-1915 --
2. Oblivion and Redemption 1916-29 --
3. Wilderness Years 1930-39 --
4. Glory Years 1939-45 --
5. Sunset Years 1945-63 --
Appendix Churchill Center and Societies 505. Young statesman 1897-1915 --
First political speech: \'The dried up drain-pipe of radicalism\', 26 July 1897, Bath --
\'Escape!\', 23 December 1899, Durban, South Africa --
\'The anniversay of my escape\', 13 December 1900, New York --
Maiden speech: \'A certain splendid memory\', 18 February 1901, House of Commons --
Lifting again the \'tattered flag\', 13 May 1901, House of Commons --
\'An age of great events and little men\', 21 November 1901, Liverpool --
\'A navy ... to perserve the peace of the world\', 17 January 1903, Oldham --
\'The mere washpot of plutocracy\', 4 June 1904, Alexandra Palace, London --
\'For free trade\', 16 June 1904, Cheetham Hill, Manchester --
\'Dear food for the millions\', 13 May 1905, Manchester --
\'British hospitality\', 9 October 1905, Cheetham Hill, Manchester --
\'No more garters for dukes\', 14 December 1905, Manchester --
\'The gift of England\', 31 July 1906, House of Commons --
\'The cause of the left-out millions\', 11 October 1906, Glasgow --
George Bernard Shaw: \'A volcano\', 22 October 1906, Free Trade Hall, Manchester --
\'My African journey\', 18 January 1908, National Liberal Club, London. Socialism: \'All yours is mine!\', 22 January 1908, Cheetham, Manchester --
The pen: \'Liberator of man and of nations\', 17 February 1908, London --
\'What is society?\' 4 May 1908, Kinnaird Hall, Dundee --
\'I am the Board of Trade\', 4 February 1909, Newcastle-upon-Tyne --
The budget: \'Cannot afford to live or die\', 22 May 1909, Manchester --
\'A violent rupture of constitutional custom\', 4 September 1909, Leicester --
\'The most ancient and the most glorious monarchy\', 4 December 1909, Southport --
\'The upkeep of the aristocracy\', 17 December 1909, Burnley, Lancs --
\'For soldiers to fire on the people ... \', 7 February 1911, House of Commons --
Unemployment insurance, 22 May 1911, House of Commons --
National rail strike, 22 August 1911, House of Commons --
\'The maintenance of naval supremacy\', 9 November 1911, Guildhall, London --
\'Why should not Ireland have her chance?\', 8 February 1912, Belfast --
\'An age of incipient violence\', 18 March 1912, House of Commons --
\'Air power\', 10 November 1913, Guildhall, London --
\'Unconquerable and incomparable\', 4 March 1914, London --
\'The world is armed as it was never armed before\', 17 March 1914, House of Commons --
\'The war will be long and sombre\', 11 September 1914, London --
The Dardanelles, 5 June 1915, Dundee --
\'Take Constantinople!\', 15 November 1915, House of Commons --
Oblivion and redemption 1916-29 --
\'The hardest of tests\', 23 May 1916, House of Commons --
\'Grappling with the most terrible foe\', 31 May 1916, House of Commons. \'Perils, sorrows and sufferings\', 10 December 1917, Bedford --
\'The war is won!\', 16 December 1918, Connaught Rooms, London --
\'Bolshevist atrocities\', 11 April 1919, Connaught Rooms, London --
Farewell to \'the beer of Old England\', 18 July 1919, London --
\'The Jews should have a national home\', 31 March 1921, Jerusalem --
Lenin, 8 June 1921, Manchester --
\'The culture and glories of the Arab race\', 14 June 1921, House of Commons --
\'The dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone\', 16 February 1922, House of Commons --
Conservative once more, 16 September 1925, Birmingham --
\'The follies of Socialism\', 11 December 1925, Battersea --
\'Artful dodger!\', 22 April 1926, House of Commons --
\'The blushing Liberal bride\', 22 October 1928, Chingford --
\'A disarmament fable\', 24 October 1928, Aldersbrook --
The wilderness years 1930-39 --
\'A seditious Middle Temple lawyer\', 23 February 1931, Epping --
\'Abandoning India\', 18 March 1931, Royal Albert Hall, London --
Prohibition, November/December 1931, lecture tour of the United States --
\'Bands of sturdy Teutonic youths\', 23 November 1932, House of Commons --
\'Pontifical, anonymous mugwumpery\', 22 February 1933, House of Commons --
\'England\', 24 April 1933, Royal Society of St. George, London --
\'Wars come very suddenly\', 7 February 1934, House of Commons --
\'Germany is arming\', 8 March 1934, House of Commons --
\'We lie within ... striking distance\', 16 November 1934, broadcast, London --
\'A corridor of deepening and darkening danger\', 31 May 1935, House of Commons. \'You have unsettled everything ... \', 5 June 1935, House of Commons --
\'I am a Treaty man\', 10 July 1935, House of Commons --
\'Naval security\', 24 July 1935, Harlow --
\'Abyssinia has been invaded\', 8 October 1935, Chingford --
\'Nazidom ... with all its hatreds\', 24 October 1935, House of Commons --
\'Germany ... fears no one\', March 1936, House of Commons --
The Jews: \'Their blood and race\', 24 March 1936, House of Commons --
\'Great hammers descending day and night\', 26 March 1936, House of Commons --
\'Hitler has torn up the treaties\', 6 April 1936, House of Commons --
\'Thank God for the French Army\', 24 September 1936, Paris --
Lawrence of Arabia, 3 October 1936, Oxford --
\'The locust years\', 12 November 1936, House of Commons --
\'Approaching the most dangerous moment\', 25 November 1936, London --
\'The abdication of King Edward VIII\', 10 December 1936, House of Commons --
Rudyard Kipling, 17 November 1937, Grosvenor House, London --
Austria annexed, 14 March 1938, House of Commons --
\'I have watched this famous island ... \', 24 March 1938, House of Commons --
\'The sentinel towers of the Western approaches\', 5 May 1938, House of Commons --
\'Save mankind from martyrdom\', 26 September 1938, London --
\'A total and unmitigated defeat\', 5 October 1938, House of Commons --
\'The lights are going out\', 16 October 1938, broadcast to US, London --
\'The bitter fruits of Munich\', 14 March 1939, Waltham Abbey --
\'The surge of unity and of duty\', 20 April 1939, Canada Club, London. \'Repudiation of the Balfour Declaration\', 23 May 1939, House of Commons --
\'A hush over Europe\', 8 August 1939, broadcast to US, London --
The glory years 1939-45 --
War, 3 September 1939, House of Commons --
Russia: \'A riddle, wrapped in a mystery\', 1 October 1939, broadcast, London --
\'The Navy\'s here!\', 23 February 1940, Guildhall, London --
\'Blood, toil, tears and sweat\', 13 May 1940, House of Commons --
\'Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour!\', 19 May 1940, broadcast, London --
\'Wars are not won by evacuations\', 4 June 1940, House of Commons --
\'The news from France is very bad\', 17 June 1940, broadcast, London --
\'This was their finest hour\', 18 June 1940, House of Commons --
Destruction of the French Fleet, 4 July 1940, House of Commons --
\'The War of the Unknown Warriors\', 14 July 1940, broadcast, London --
\'The few\', 20 August 1940, House of Commons --
Fifty American destroyers, 5 September 1940, House of Commons --
\'These cruel, wanton ... bombings\', 11 September 1940, broadcast, London --
\'We will all go down fighting to the end\', 17 September 1940, House of Commons --
\'We can take it!\', 8 October 1940, House of Commons --
\'Dieu protege la France\', 21 October 1940, broadcast, London --
\'Give us the tools\', 9 February 1941, broadcast, London --
\'This Battle of the Atlantic\', 18 March 1941, Pilgrims\' Society, London --
Yugoslavia invaded, 9 April 1941, House of Commons --
\'Westward look, the land is bright\', 27 April 1941, broadcast, London --
Vote of confidence, 7 May 1941, House of Commons --
\'The Bismarch is sunk!\' 27 May 1941, House of Commons. \'Our solid, stubborn strength\', 12 June 1941, London --
\'The Old Lion\', 16 June 1941, broadcast, London --
Alliance with Russia, 22 June 1941, broadcast, London --
\'The grit and stamina of Londoners\', 14 July 1941, County Hall, London --
The Atlantic Charter, 24 August 1941, broadcast, London --
\'We are still captain of our souls\', 9 September 1941, House of Commons --
\'Never give in!\', 29 October 1941, Harrow School --
The Lend-Lease Bill, 10 November 1941, Mansion House, London --
War with Japan, 8 December 1941, House of Commons --
Joint Session of Congress, 26 December 1941, Washington, DC --
\'Some chicken! Some neck!\', 30 December 1941, Parliament, Ottawa --
\'I demand a Vote of Confidence\', 27 January 1942, House of Commons --
\'Singagore has fallen\', 15 February 1942, broadcast, London --
Prime Minister for two years, 10 May 1942, broadcast, London --
Motion of Censure, 2 July 1942, House of Commons --
\'The bright gleam of victory\', 10 November 1942, Mansion House, London --
\'The frontiers of deliverance\', 29 November 1942, world broadcast, London --
\'The Desert Army\', 3 February 1943, Tripoli --
Tribute of Montgomergy and Alexander, 11 February 1943, House of Commons --
\'Heavier work lies ahead\', 19 May 1943, Congress, Washington, DC --
\'We expect no reward\', 30 June 1943, Guildhall, London --
\'The gift of a common tongue\', 6 September 1943, Harvard, Boston --
\'A sense of crowd and urgency\', 28 October 1943, House of Commons --
\'The hour of our greatest effort\', 26 March 1944, broadcast, London --
D-Day, 6 June 1944, House of Commons --
\'The price of blood ... for the soil of France\', 28 September 1944, House of Commons. \'Democracy is no harlot\', 8 December 1944, House of Commons --
\'We demand unconditional surrender\', 18 January 1945, House of Commons --
\'Greece forever!\', 14 February 1945, Constitution Square, Athens --
The Yalta Conference, 27 February 1945, House of Commons --
Lloyd George, 28 March 1945, House of Commons --
President Roosevelt, 17 April 1945, House of Commons --
\'No words can ever express the horror\', 19 April 1945, House of Commons --
Victory in Europe, 8 May 1945, House of Commons and broadcast, London --
\'This is your victory\', 8 May 1945, Ministry of Health, London --
\'Forward, till the whole task is done\', 13 May 1945, broadcast, London --
Back to party politics, 4 June 1945, broadcast, London --
General Eisenhower, 12 June 1945, Mansion House, London --
\'Dear Desert Rats\', 21 July 1945, Winston Club, Berlin --
Resignation, 26 July 1945, 10 Downing Street --
The sunset years 1945-63 --
The atomic bomb, 6 August 1945, 10 Downing Street --
Surrender of Japan, 15 August 1945, House of Commons --
\'Government of the people\', 16 August 1945, House of Commons --
Alamein, 25 October 1945, Royal Albert Hall, London --
\'We did not flinch\', 31 October 1945, Harrow School --
\'The unnecessary war\', 16 November 1945, Belgian Parliament, Brussels --
\'An Iron Curtain has descended\', 5 March 1946, Fulton, Missouri --
\'The tragedy of Europe\', 9 May 1946, The Hague, Holland --
Palestine, 1 August 1946, House of Commons --
A \'United States of Europe\', 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland. \'A property-owning democracy\', 5 October 1946, Blackpool --
The Communist menace, 24 October 1946, Loughton --
Palestine: \'Blood and shame\', 31 January 1947, House of Commons --
\'United Europe\', 14 May 1947, Royal Ablert Hall, London --
The rights of the British, 4 October 1947, House of Commons --
\'Shabby moneylenders!\', 28 October 1947, House of Commons --
\'Socialism is the philosophy of failure\', 28 May 1948, Perth --
\'When they get the atomic bomb\', 9 October 1948, Llandudno, Wales --
The North Atlantic Treaty, 12 May 1949, House of Commons --
The Berlin Airlift, 21 July 1949, House of Commons --
\'Prenez-garde! Je vais parler en francais\', 12 August 1949, Strasbourg, France --
\'Watch out! I am going to speak in French\' (translation), 12 August 1949, Strasbourg, France --
\'English literature is a glorious inheritance\', 2 November 1949, London --
\'Our Socialist masters\', 9 February 1950, Devonport --
\'An experiment in freedom\', 18 May 1950, Edinburg --
\'This century of tragedy and storm\', 4 July 1950, Dorchester Hotel, London --
\'Renewing the glory of our island home\', 21 July 1951, Woodford --
\'Regain our independence\', 23 October 1951, Plymouth --
\'The valiant champion of freedom\', 9 November 1951, Guildhall, London --
\'We must not lose hope!\', 17 January 1952, Congress, Washington, DC --
King George VI, 7 February 1952, Broadcast, London --
\'The treacherous trap-door\', 11 June 1952, Savoy Hotel, London --
\'The spirit of England\', 23 April 1953, London, and Broadcast --
\'The Crown and Parliament\', 27 May 1953, St. Stephen\'s, Westminster. \'Supreme catastrophe\', 3 November 1953, House of Commons --
\'A calmer and kindlier age\', 9 November 1954, Guildhall, London --
\'The nation ... had the lion-heart\', 30 November 1954, Westminster Hall --
\'Never despair!\', 1 March 1955, House of Commons --
\'The Queen!\', 4 April 1955, 10 Downing Street --
\'Let us go boldly forward\', 21 June 1955, Guildhall, London --
Honorary US Citizenship, 9 April 1963, The White House, Washington, DC.