Never Give In! - The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

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by  Churchill Winston S

Selected and Edited by his Grandson
Winston S. Churchill
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THE BEST OF
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S
SPEECHES
PIMLICO
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NEVER GIVE IN!
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was educated at
Harrow and Sandhurst, and after several years in
the army, became a newspaper correspondent
and then an MP. Mter Chamberlain's defeat
in May 1940, Churchill formed a coalition
government and as Prime Minister led Britain
through the Second World War. Defeated in the
July 1945 election, he became the Leader of the
Opposition, and tnen became Prime Minister
once more in 1951. In his last years he was often
described as 'the greatest living Englishman'. He
was knighted in 1953, and won the Nobel Prize
for Literature the same year. His grandson,
Winston S. Churchill (born 1940), has also been
a writer, journalist and politician.
ALSO BY THE AUTHOR. SIR WI:--JSTON CHURCHILL
Story of the Malakand Field Force
The River War (2 volumes)*
Savrola*
London to Lodysmith via Pretoria
Ian Hamilton's March
Mr Brodrick's Army*
Lord Randolph Churchill (2 volumes)*
For Free Trade*
My African Journey
Liberalism and the Social Problem
The People'; Rights
TIle World Crisis (5 volumes)
My Early Life: A Roving Commissioll*
India
Thoughts and Adventures/Amid These Storms
Marlborough: His Life and Times (4 volumes)
Great Contemporaries
Arms and the Covena"t/While England Slept
Srep by Step 1936-1939
Into Battle/Blood Sweat and Tears
The Unrelenting Struggle
The End of the Beginning
Onwards to Victory
The Dawn of Liberation
Victory
War Speeches
Secret Sessio" Speeches
Painting as a Pastime
The Second World War (6 volumes)*
The Sinews of Peace
Europe Unite
In the Balance
The War Speeches Definitive Edition (3 volumes)
Stemming the Tide
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (4 volumes)
Th< American Civil War
The Island Race
Heroes of History
Joan of Arc
The Unwritten Alliance
Young WillSton's Wars
Frontiers and Wars
Col/ee/ed Works (34 volumes)
Collected Essays (4 volumes)
Complete Speeches (8 volumes)
TIle Boer War
TIle Dream
ALSO BY THE EDITOR, WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
First Journey
The Six-Day War (with Randolph S. Churchill)
Difending the West
Alemories and Adverttures
His Father's Son*
As editor
The Great Republic: A Histo/)' of America
by Sir Winston Churchill
*
currently in print
NEVER GIVE IN!
The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
,Selected and edited by his grandson
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
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Published by Pimlico 2004
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Never give in, never give in,
never, never, never, never -
in nothing, great or small,
large or petty -
never gtve
In
except to convictions of honour
and good sense!
Winston S. Churchill
Address to the boys of Harrow School, 29 October 1941
CONTENTS
Illustrations XVIi
Acknowledgments XiX
Editor's Preface XXi
1. Young Statesman 1897-1915
First political speech: 'The dried up drain-pipe of
Radicalism', 26 July 1897, Bath 3
'Escape!', 23 December 1899, Durban, South Africa 5
'The anniversary of my escape', 13 December 1900, New
York 7
Maiden speech: 'A certain splendid memory', 18 February
1901, House of Commons 8
Lifting again the 'tattered flag', 13 May 1901, House of
Commons 10
'An age of great events and little men', 21 November
1901, Liverpool 12
'A navy ... to preserve the peace of the world',
17 January 1903, Oldham 13
'The mere washpot of plutocracy', 4 June 1904,
Alexandra Palace, London 15
'For free trade', 16 June 1904, Cheetham Hill, Manchester 17
'Dear food for the millions', 13 May 1905, Manchester 19
'British hospitality', 9 October 1905, Cheetham Hill,
Manchester 20
'No more garters for dukes', 14 December 1905,
Manchester 21
'The gift of England', 31 July 1906, House of Commons 22
'The cause of the left-out millions', 11 October 1906,
Glasgow 23
George Bernard Shaw: 'A volcano', 22 October 1906,
Free Trade Hall, Manchester 26
'My African journey', 18 January 1908, National Liberal
Club, London 26
Vlll Never Give In!
Socialism: 'All yours is mine!', 22 January 1908,
Cheetham, Manchester 27
The pen: 'Liberator of man and of nations', 17 February
1908, London 29
'What is society?', 4 May 1908, Kinnaird Hall, Dundee 31
'I am the Board of Trade', 4 February 1909, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne 32
The Budget: 'Cannot afford to live or die', 22 May 1909,
Manchester 33
'A violent rupture of constitutional custom', 4 September
1909, Leicester 34
'The most ancient and the most glorious monarchy',
4 December 1909, Southport 36
'The upkeep of the aristocracy', 17 December 1909,
Burnley, Lancs 37
'For soldiers to fire on the people .. .', 7 February 1911,
House of Commons 39
Unemployment insurance, 22 May 1911, House of
Commons 41
National rail strike, 22 August 1911, House of Commons 43
'The maintenance of naval supremacy', 9 November 1911,
Guildhall, London 45
'Why should not Ireland have her chance?', 8 February
1912, Belfast 47
'An age of incipient violence', 18 March 1912, House of
Commons 50
'Air power', 10 November 1913, Guildhall, London 54
'Unconquerable and incomparable', 4 March 1914,
London 55
'The world is armed as it was never armed before', 17
March 1914, House of Commons 56
'The war will be long and sombre', 11 September 1914,
London 58
The Dardanelles,S June 1915, Dundee 61
'Take Constantinople!', 15 November 1915, House of
Commons 64
2. Oblivion and Redemption 1916-29
'The hardest of tests', 23 May 1916, House of Commons 69
'Grappling with the most terrible foe', 31 May 1916,
House of Commons 70
Contents IX
'Perils, sorrows and sufferings', 10 December 1917,
Bedford 74
'The war is won!', 16 December 1918, Connaught
Rooms, London 75
'Bolshevist atrocities', 11 April 1919, Connaught Rooms,
London 77
Farewell to 'the beer of Old England', 18 July 1919,
London 78
'The Jews should have a National Home', 31 March
1921, Jerusalem 79
Lenin, 8 June 1921, Manchester 80
'The culture and glories of the Arab race', 14 June 1921,
House of Commons 82
'The dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone', 16
February 1922, House of Commons 85
Conservative once more, 16 September 1925, Birmingham 85
'The follies of Socialism', 11 December 1925, Battersea 89
'Artful Dodger!', 22 April 1926, House of Commons 90
'The blushing Liberal bride', 22 October 1928, Chingford 91
'A disarmament fable', 24 October 1928, Aldersbrook 92
3. The Wilderness Years 1930-39
'A seditious Middle Temple lawyer', 23 February 1931,
Epping 97
'Abandoning India', 18 March 1931, Royal Albert Hall,
London 97
Prohibition, NovemberlDecember 1931, Lecture Tour of
the United States 99
'Bands of sturdy Teutonic youths', 23 November 1932,
House of Commons 100
'Pontifical, anonymous mugwumpery', 22 February 1933,
House of Commons 102
'England', 24 April 1933, Royal Society of St George,
London 103
'Wars come very suddenly', 7 February 1934, House of
Commons 105
'Germany is arming', 8 March 1934, House of Commons 107
'We lie within ... striking distance', 16 November 1934,
Broadcast, London 109
'A corridor of deepening and darkening danger', 31 May
1935, House of Commons 111
x Never Give In!
'You have unsettled everything ... ', 5 June 1935, House
of Commons 115
'I am a Treaty man', 10 July 1935, House of Commons 117
'Naval security', 24 July 1935, Harlow 119
'Abyssinia has been invaded', 8 October 1935, Chingford 119
'Nazidom ... with all its hatreds', 24 October 1935,
House of Commons 121
'Germany ... fears no one', March 1936, House of
Commons 124
The Jews: 'Their blood and race', 24 March 1936, House
of Commons 128
'Great hammers descending day and night', 26 March
1936, House of Commons 130
'Hitler has torn up the treaties', 6 April 1936, House of
Commons 133
'Thank God for the French Army', 24 September 1936,
Par~ 135
Lawrence of Arabia, 3 October 1936, Oxford 139
'The locust years', 12 November 1936, House of
Commons 142
'Approaching the most dangerous moment', 25 November
1936, London 154
'The abdication of King Edward VIII', 10 December 1936,
House of Commons 156
Rudyard Kipling, 17 November 1937, Grosvenor House,
London 158
Austria annexed, 14 March 1938, House of Commons 159
'I have watched this famous island .. .', 24 March 1938,
House of Commons 163
'The sentinel towers of the Western approaches', 5 May
1938, House of Commons 167
'Save mankind from martyrdom', 26 September 1938,
London 1~0
'A total and unmitigated defeat', 5 October 1938, House
of Commons 171
'The lights are going out', 16 October 1938, Broadcast to
US, London 182
'The bitter fruits of Munich', 14 March 1939, Waltham
Abbey 185
'The surge of unity and of duty', 20 April 1939, Canada
Club, London 187