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.

We are defeated at sea because our admirals have learned – where I know not– that war can be made without running risks.

I’m finished ... I’m done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I’d go out to the Front at once.

It will be better to engage Germany on new frontiers … Naval command of the Baltic must be secured.

We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

The systematic cruelties to which the Jewish people – men, women and children – have been exposed under the Nazi regime are amongst the most terrible events of history.

I know there are vast numbers of Jews serving with our Forces ... but it seems to me indeed appropriate that a special Jewish unit, a special unit of that race which has suffered indescribable torments from the Nazis, should be represented as a distinct formation amongst the forces gathered for the final overthrow.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who… lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.