Watch Winston Churchill’s 5 best speeches ever

1. Winston Churchill’s “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat” Speech

When: 13 May 1940
Where: House of Commons, London
Best Line: “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.”

2. Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech

When: 5 March 1946
Where: Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri.
Best Line: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”

3. Winston Churchill’s “So Much Owed By So Many” Speech

When: 20 August 1940.
Where: House of Commons, London.
Best Line: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

4. Winston Churchill’s “Finest Hour” Speech

When: 18 June 1940.
Where: House of Commons, London.
Best Line: “But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”

5. Winston Churchill’s “Never Surrender” Speech

When: 4 June 1940.
Where: House Of Commons, London.
Best Line: “We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

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