Winston Churchill Speeches

1)      Broadcast as first Sea Lord, assessing the first month of the war.

2)      Broadcast as first Sea Lord, assessing the first ten weeks of the war.

3)      Broadcast following the sinking of the Graf Spee.

4)      Broadcast to the neutral nations.

5)      A speech at a luncheon held in the honour of the crews of Exeter and Ajax at the GuildHall, London, following the sinking of the Graf Spee. Churchill congratulates the crews of Exeter and Ajax for their victory over the Graf Spee by describing how "in a dark, cold winter, it warmed the cockles of the British heart".

6)      Broadcast as the end of the phoney war approached.

7)      The first speech as Prime Minister with this address to the House of Commons. Remembered for "blood, toil, tears and sweat".

8)      I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined the Government; 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat'. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind, We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, What is our aim? I can answer in one word: 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.

9)      First broadcast to the Nation as Prime Minister; following the defeats of the Allies in France.

10)   I SPEAK TO YOU FOR THE FIRST time as Prime Minister in a solemn hour for the life of our country, of our Empire, of our Allies, and above all the cause of freedom. .... behind the armies and fleets of Britain and France - gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians - upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall.

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