Winston Churchill: Populární citáty (strana 7)
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[(en) Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.]
Zdroj: projev v Dolní sněmovně, 11. listopadu 1947 (The Official Report, House of Commons (5th Series), 11 November 1947, vol. 444, cc. 206–07)
„Od Štětína na Baltu po Terst na Jadranu se nad Evropou snesla železná opona.“
Fulton, jaro 1946, ku příležitosti návštěvy USA
[(en) From Stetin in the Baltic to Tiest in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended Europe.]
proslov v Dolní sněmovně, 13. květen 1940
[(en) 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: 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.]
Zdroj: [Peter G, Tsouras, Slovník vojenských citátů, Baronet, Praha, 2007, 44, 978-80-7384-048-8]