Winston Churchill's reported last words were, "I'm bored with it all," spoken to his son-in-law, Christopher Soames, on January 15, 1965, after suffering a severe stroke from which he never fully recovered, slipping into a coma and passing away nine days later on January 24, 1965.
The whole world is the poorer by the loss of his many-sided genius while the survival of this country and the sister nations of the Commonwealth, in the face of the greatest danger that has ever threatened them, will be a perpetual memorial to his leadership, his vision and indomitable courage.
“My dear friends, this is your hour. This is not victory of a party or of any class. It's a victory of the great British nation as a whole. We were the first, in this ancient island, to draw the sword against tyranny.
These Were Winston Churchill's Last Words Before His Death
What did Churchill say when Pearl Harbor was bombed?
When news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor reached Churchill, he immediately realized what that meant: The United States would now have no choice but to take part in the war. In his own words, written in a history of World War II, Churchill said that night he “went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved.”
While Churchill clearly disapproved of the Jews' persecution, he also argued: "they have been partly responsible for the antagonism from which they suffer." Churchill argued that "the wickedness of the persecutors" was not the sole reason for the ill-treatment of Jews down the ages.
Rember what Albert Einstein said of Mahatma Gandhi: "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth." A deceptively simple man, Gandhi overturned the greatest Empire the world has ever seen.
Pre- vious scholarship has shown that Hitler was a firm believer in God and that he did have a positive view of Jesus even though he expressed only contempt for the Christianity of the established churches. However, the issue of whether Hitler considered Jesus divine has not been satisfactorily answered thus far.
Hitler's biggest enemies were multifaceted: internally, Jews were seen as the primary racial enemy, forming the core of Nazi hatred and genocide, while politically, Communists, Social Democrats, and other dissenters were targets. Externally, the Soviet Union (under Stalin) was a major military adversary and ideological foe, and ultimately, the entire Allied coalition (including the US, UK, and USSR) became his collective enemy, leading to Germany's defeat in World War II.
Taken together, the evidence indicates that Churchill had acquired some permanent and increasing neurological deficit due to cerebrovascular disease between 1949 and March 1952.
While Churchill denied the divinity of Christ, he thought that Christ was the greatest moral teacher who had ever lived. He believed in a providential deity who was involved in human affairs to some degree. He was not merely a deist or agnostic.
In his 1959 Palm Sunday sermon, King preached on the significance of Gandhi's 1928 salt march and his fast to end discrimination against India's untouchables. King ultimately believed that the Gandhian approach of nonviolent resistance would “bring about a solution to the race problem in America” (Papers 4:355).
Gandhi's life and legacy illuminate the paradox of idealism: those who sacrifice the most often receive the least, while society benefits from their vision. The opportunism that follows is not merely a betrayal of the idealist but a reflection of humanity's preference for short-term gains over transformative change.
One is Churchill's 1943 remark after Germany surrendered in North Africa: “The Hun is always either at your throat or your feet.” Another is attributed to Churchill's wartime aide Lord Ismay, who was later Secretary General of NATO, whose purpose he explained was to “keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the ...
Sadly, Churchill did not receive authoritative reports of the Holocaust until July 1944, long after the worst atrocities were committed. But from then on, he repeatedly denounced it in the strongest terms, publicly as well as privately.
On 1 May 1945, two days after the abject end of Mussolini, the German radio announced that Hitler had died “fighting with his last breath against Bolshevism.” Churchill's first reaction was unexpected: “Well, I must say I think he was perfectly right to die like that.”3 His former private secretary Sir John Colville ...
What did Churchill say was the only thing that scared him during the war?
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril. Invasion, I thought, even before the air battle, would fail. After the air victory it was a good battle for us.
