World Leader

Winston Churchill

British Prime Minister

1874 – 1965

161

Total Mentions

Direct Quotes

1946

First Mention

2024

Latest Mention

Most Frequent Citing Countries

United Kingdom(14)Union of Soviet Socialist Republics(11)India(7)Iceland(7)UK(5)Poland(5)Colombia(5)Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic(4)

Direct Quotations (4)

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

2024New Zealand

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"All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word"

2021Austria

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"[T]ruth is so precious she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."

2018Micronesia, Federated States of

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"Human beings and human societies are not structures that are built, or machines that are forged. They are plants that grow and must be treated as such"

1981United States

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All Mentions (83)

2024·Greece

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re disruptors who would like nothing more than to cause new divisions in this sensitive corner of Europe. It is time to relegate the famous phrase of Winston Churchill that “the Balkans produce more history than they can consume” once and for all to the history books. Ladies and gentlemen, Let me conclude by address

2023·Solomon Islands

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n on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all. I conclude by paraphrasing Winston Churchill: Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that, if humankind and the United Nations last for 1.000 years, men and women wil

2023·Cyprus

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ned the Secretary-General’s circle of leadership on the prevention of. and response to. sexual exploitation and abuse at the United Nations. In 1946. Winston Churchill declared that the dangers and difficulties of establishing the conditions of freedom and democracy and permanently preventing war will not be removed

2023·Poland

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hey pondered how to avoid similar tragedies in the future. The leaders of the United States and Great Britain. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, and soon the other countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, including Poland, signed the Atlantic Charter. It contained the most important principles

2022·Hungary

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life was steeped in service to peace. We owe it to the people and to her memory to make our decisions in the same spirit. Let me conclude by quoting Winston Churchill, who said in 1953, “Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.” L

2022·European Union

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” has been overused perhaps, but now, more than ever, we sense that the times we are living through are not ordinary or insignificant. And I think of Winston Churchill, who, in 1946, referring to the failure of the League of Nations to avert the Second World War, he said: “The League did not fail because of its prin

2022·Belarus

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, they could have drawn inspiration from the model of cooperation established during the Second World War by the “Big Three” — Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill — who forged arrangements that significantly narrowed opportunities for great Powers to wage wars against each other. Nonetheless, unfortunately, the

2020·French Republic

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ates, the foundations of the international order so that the foundations of our Organization are not washed away by the pandemic. On the contrary, as Winston Churchill said, if you do not take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat. This requires the establishment of functional international cooperation

2020·Hungary

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waste management as well as education. We look forward to welcoming you all. As for the overcoming of the crisis, let me leave you with the words of Winston Churchill: “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

2019·Republic of Serbia

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ent between Serbs and Albanians is of the utmost importance to the stability of the Balkans and that those two nations have a role in our region that Winston Churchill intended for France and Germany when he spoke of uniting Europe. We are ready to continue to make efforts to reach a solution to the issue of Kosovo

2016·Ukraine

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to ensuring that IDPs have the means to live, as well as improving their access to health care, education, housing and employment. Seventy years ago, Winston Churchill, one of the founding fathers of the United Nations, said at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri: “Our difficulties and dangers will not be remove

2016·United Kingdom

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ploited for profit and held captive with little or no chance of escape. From the Declaration of St. James’s Palace and the Atlantic Charter forged by Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt to the first meeting of the General Assembly in London in 1946, the United Kingdom has always been an outward-looking, global

2015·Albania

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we can apply to all the challenges in the world, and we need them now more than ever. At a time of tragic events, with the sounds of war around him, Winston Churchill noted: “Words are the only things that last forever.” Let us all depict in words in our school curricula these values and principles of tolerance and

2015·Ghana

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d, all Member States, on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of this all-important international Organization. “Study history, study history”, Winston Churchill, the famous British Prime Minister once said, for “in history lies all the secrets of statecraft”. And so we study history. In millions of schools th

2014·Russian Federation

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s tedious. But recognizing that in every State democracy is “the worst form of Government except for all the others” also took a long time, not until Churchill issued his verdict. It is time to recognize the inevitability of that axiom in international affairs, which currently suffer from a huge deficit of d

2012·Saint Vincent and Grenadines

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hange lies undisputedly with those whose reckless pollution over generations has led us to the brink of catastrophe. In a different time and context, Winston Churchill inspired his people with the words “we shall fight on the seas and oceans... we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be”. Today, know this:

2011·Canada

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War taught us all the tragic price of going along just to get along. It was accommodation and appeasement that allowed Fascism to gather strength. As Winston Churchill said, an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. We respect State sovereignty, but Canada will not go along or look the o

2010·Netherlands

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d add immediately that countries that want influence should realize that this entails financial, political and moral obligations. Or, in the words of Winston Churchill, the price of greatness is responsibility. I have briefly sketched why the United Nations is in need of renovation.

2009·Israel

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. The question facing the international community is whether it is prepared to confront those forces, or will it accommodate them. Over 70 years ago, Winston Churchill lamented what he called the “confirmed unteachability of mankind”. By that he meant the unfortunate habit of civilized societies to sleep and to slum

2005·Maldives

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To recall Sir Winston Churchill, it would not be enough to say that we will do all that we can. Rather, we would like to say that we will do all that is required, and then some, to

1998·Grenada

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then spawned the Second World War. Yet, following the horrors of the Second World War, which prompted the setting up of the United Nations, the late Winston Churchill, in persuading the British people and, indeed, the rest of the world, to join in the second attempt to pursue peace among nations, advised that “To j

1997·Iceland

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give the United Nations a clear and focused mandate and empower it to carry that mandate out? In my opinion our answer should be the same as the one Winston Churchill once gave: “Give us the tools and we will finish the job”. Once more we must urge all Member States to pay their contributions to the Organization fu

1995·Barbados

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ch has called into question the very credibility of the Organization and the integrity of its peace-keeping function. We recall words of the late Sir Winston Churchill today: But Bosnia has not been the United Nations “finest hour”. But let us not forget that the United Nations is no more, no less, than the collecti

1993·Belize

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ace is disrupted by fratricidal struggle. Everywhere the crushing burden of armaments - to employ a famous expression used by President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in 1941 - bids to drive our planet off its established course. The Second World War was partly fought, and this great Organization was largely establ

1993·Singapore

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" victors, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, were sceptical of Roosevelt’s view of China’s ability to play a major role in the post-war world. Churchill’s insistence on including France among the elite group was met with similar scepticism by Roosevelt and Stalin. It will be even more difficult to dec

1992·United States

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eams of freedom were frozen in the grip of cold war, and, instead of finding a common ground, we found ourselves at Ground Zero. Instead of living on Churchill's The President returned to the Chair. "broad, sunlit uplands", millions found that there was, as Arthur Koestler so chillingly wrote, "Darkness at N

1990·Solomon islands

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it. We believe we should not resign ourselves to accepting peace as an illusion to be couched in terms of what the great English and world statesman, Winston Churchill, would term a human tragedy. My country, Solomon Islands, is a peaceful island nation. Peace is the only gift we can offer and contribute to this int

1990·Italy

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, Iraq. Only firmness can open the way to such a settlement and prevent the start of a devastating conflagration. Remarking on the Munich Conference, Winston Churchill observed bitterly that the democracies had chosen dishonour to avoid war and in the end they had both war and honour. The lesson is still true. Today

1989·Colombia

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books - the history of great plagues that were eradicated. We should be under no illusion? about the burdens that lie ahead. Victory will take time. Winston Churchill might have been describing the road before us today when he told the House of Commons in 1940: "Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journe

1986·Luxembourg

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nited Nations into an even more effective instrument, more in conformity with its ideals. In acting this way, let us be inspired by the realism which Winston Churchill showed one day when he stated: (spoke in English) "The United Nations were not created to take us to heaven but to save us from hell."

1986·United Kingdom

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the honor to address the General Assembly today on behalf of the European Community and its 12 Member States. Forty years ago, on 19 September 1946, Winston Churchill had this to say of Europe: "Over wide areas a vast quivering mass of tormented, hungry, care-worn and bewildered human beings gape at the ruins of th

1985·Colombia

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impossible to overcome. We wish to honor the memories of the United States President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, who both expressed in the Declaration of the Atlantic their belief that "the disarmament of the aggressor nations was essential until it was possibl

1985·Uganda

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consequences of lawlessness, political instability, economic decline and moral decay. Uganda, once described by one of the greatest of statesmen, Sir Winston Churchill, as the pearl of Africa, started out on its independence road with great promise and high hopes. During the first few years of its independence Ugand

1985·Brazil

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ple ways of life, freedom does not flourish, but languishes in privilege and drowns in oppression. Shortly before the creation of the United Nations, Churchill and Roosevelt held a dialog at Hyde Park. Roosevelt asked how peace could be assured and Churchill replied, "By an Anglo-American alliance." But Roos

1984·UK

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se who drew up the Charter of the United Nations now almost 40 years ago. 40. At Fulton, Missouri, only a year after the birth of the United Nations, Winston Churchill spoke of the political will needed to tum the fledgling Organization into a practical force for peace.

1979·Venezuela

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nean to the West, is today bearing in a clear southerly direction, towards Latin America," 103. The menace of the crisis that occurred in 1914, which Churchill with keen perspicacity called a "world crisis', continues to threaten us. Hope for its disappearance is deep-rooted in the thinking of all mankind, o

1977·USA

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ntrolling nuclear technology, restricting the arms trade and settling disputes by peaceful means. 9. When atomic weapons were used for the first time Winston Churchill described the power of the atom as a revelation long mercifully withheld from man . Since then we have learned, in Durrenmatt’s chilling words, that

1972·Uganda

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of peace, It is the view of my delegation that we should not rest this search permanently of false premise on the premise of a balance of terror, as Winston Churchill called it. 2 )2. The existence of great armaments must surely under- He the eventuality of using them. As long as they exist, despite all the well-me

1969·Saudi Arabia

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Arab people have been galvanized into action by the sacrificial resolve of the people of Palestine to regain their homeland. 14. Neither the late Mr. Churchill nor the late Mr. Roosevelt, nor the late Mr. Stalin for that matter, considered the nazi conquest of European territories as a fait accompli. can ass

1968·Colombia

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133. I should like to borrow a vivid metaphor used by that great man Churchill to describe the role of small countries. Among the background material to the Yalta Conference of 4-11 February 1945, published by the United States

1967·Australia

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we be in it at all?". 117. I think the pragmatic political test on both these questions — "What is the issue? Should we be mixed up in it?" — is the Churchillian one. When Churchill was asked whether Britain should go on fighting after the fall of France in 1940, Churchill answered: "What would happen if we

1966·Nigeria

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flout the sanctions order in any event. As one eminent Journal pointed out recently, this case reminds one of the criticism by Mr. — as he then was — Winston Churchill of the similarly ambivalent position of the then United Kingdom Prime Minister on the occasion of the half-hearted decision of the League of Nations

1966·Ivory Coast

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ction to this division will inevitably be the awakening of an insurgent national consciousness. 9. In a letter to Marshal Stalin dated 29 April 1945, Winston Churchill wrote: "There is not much comfort in looking into a future where you and the countries you dominate, plus the Communist Parties in many other States,

1965·China

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-thirties to live up to the promise of the Covenant, the world was soon plunged into an unprecedented catastrophe. The League failed, as the late Sir Winston Churchill pointed out in 1946, "because the Governments of those days feared to face, the facts and act while time remained". We still have the time to face th

1964·Afghanistan

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y ways, he played a role achieved by only few men in this century of the greatest achievements and events in the history of mankind. The death of Sir Winston Churchill is a grave event indeed. On this solemn occasion my Government has already offered its deep condolences to the Government of the United Kingdom and i

1964·Cyprus

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60. Mr. President, I feel that before opening my statement it is my duty to pay tribute to the memory of Winston Churchill. The death of Winston Churchill deprived the world of a great man, but that great man is now possessed by history. 61. Mr. President, earlier in the

1964·Chad

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om delegation on the painful loss suffered by the British nation in the death of one of the greatest statesmen of the first half of this century, Sir Winston Churchill. 2. Since the Chad delegation is speaking before this great Assembly at the beginning of the new year, we would like to extend, both personally to th

1964·United States of America

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quently and resolutely that it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees than the noble spirit that left us the other day in London — Sir Winston Churchill. 128. As long as there are patriots, aggression will be met with resistance —whatever the cost. And the cost rises ever higher with the revolution in

1963·Spain

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he treaty which the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union signed in Moscow on 5 August 1963. Spain does not feel towards anyone what Churchill described as "the fear of friendship". Still less does Spain have any misgivings because the great nuclear Powers have finally begun to listen to the

1960·India

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Secondly, we believe that in the circumstances, where the balance of power in the world unfortunately rests on what Sir Winston Churchill called "the balance of horror", it is good for nations, and not only for the nations of Asia — and while I take up no position of telling other natio

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Year	Country	Context	Speech
2024	Greece	re disruptors who would like nothing more than to cause new divisions in this sensitive corner of Europe. It is time to relegate the famous phrase of Winston Churchill that “the Balkans produce more history than they can consume” once and for all to the history books. Ladies and gentlemen, Let me conclude by address	View
2023	Solomon Islands	n on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all. I conclude by paraphrasing Winston Churchill: Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that, if humankind and the United Nations last for 1.000 years, men and women wil	View
2023	Cyprus	ned the Secretary-General’s circle of leadership on the prevention of. and response to. sexual exploitation and abuse at the United Nations. In 1946. Winston Churchill declared that the dangers and difficulties of establishing the conditions of freedom and democracy and permanently preventing war will not be removed	View
2023	Poland	hey pondered how to avoid similar tragedies in the future. The leaders of the United States and Great Britain. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, and soon the other countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, including Poland, signed the Atlantic Charter. It contained the most important principles	View
2022	Hungary	life was steeped in service to peace. We owe it to the people and to her memory to make our decisions in the same spirit. Let me conclude by quoting Winston Churchill, who said in 1953, “Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.” L	View
2022	European Union	” has been overused perhaps, but now, more than ever, we sense that the times we are living through are not ordinary or insignificant. And I think of Winston Churchill, who, in 1946, referring to the failure of the League of Nations to avert the Second World War, he said: “The League did not fail because of its prin	View
2022	Belarus	, they could have drawn inspiration from the model of cooperation established during the Second World War by the “Big Three” — Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill — who forged arrangements that significantly narrowed opportunities for great Powers to wage wars against each other. Nonetheless, unfortunately, the	View
2020	French Republic	ates, the foundations of the international order so that the foundations of our Organization are not washed away by the pandemic. On the contrary, as Winston Churchill said, if you do not take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat. This requires the establishment of functional international cooperation	View
2020	Hungary	waste management as well as education. We look forward to welcoming you all. As for the overcoming of the crisis, let me leave you with the words of Winston Churchill: “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”	View
2019	Republic of Serbia	ent between Serbs and Albanians is of the utmost importance to the stability of the Balkans and that those two nations have a role in our region that Winston Churchill intended for France and Germany when he spoke of uniting Europe. We are ready to continue to make efforts to reach a solution to the issue of Kosovo	View
2016	Ukraine	to ensuring that IDPs have the means to live, as well as improving their access to health care, education, housing and employment. Seventy years ago, Winston Churchill, one of the founding fathers of the United Nations, said at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri: “Our difficulties and dangers will not be remove	View
2016	United Kingdom	ploited for profit and held captive with little or no chance of escape. From the Declaration of St. James’s Palace and the Atlantic Charter forged by Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt to the first meeting of the General Assembly in London in 1946, the United Kingdom has always been an outward-looking, global	View
2015	Albania	we can apply to all the challenges in the world, and we need them now more than ever. At a time of tragic events, with the sounds of war around him, Winston Churchill noted: “Words are the only things that last forever.” Let us all depict in words in our school curricula these values and principles of tolerance and	View
2015	Ghana	d, all Member States, on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of this all-important international Organization. “Study history, study history”, Winston Churchill, the famous British Prime Minister once said, for “in history lies all the secrets of statecraft”. And so we study history. In millions of schools th	View
2014	Russian Federation	s tedious. But recognizing that in every State democracy is “the worst form of Government except for all the others” also took a long time, not until Churchill issued his verdict. It is time to recognize the inevitability of that axiom in international affairs, which currently suffer from a huge deficit of d	View
2012	Saint Vincent and Grenadines	hange lies undisputedly with those whose reckless pollution over generations has led us to the brink of catastrophe. In a different time and context, Winston Churchill inspired his people with the words “we shall fight on the seas and oceans... we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be”. Today, know this:	View
2011	Canada	War taught us all the tragic price of going along just to get along. It was accommodation and appeasement that allowed Fascism to gather strength. As Winston Churchill said, an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. We respect State sovereignty, but Canada will not go along or look the o	View
2010	Netherlands	d add immediately that countries that want influence should realize that this entails financial, political and moral obligations. Or, in the words of Winston Churchill, the price of greatness is responsibility. I have briefly sketched why the United Nations is in need of renovation.	View
2009	Israel	. The question facing the international community is whether it is prepared to confront those forces, or will it accommodate them. Over 70 years ago, Winston Churchill lamented what he called the “confirmed unteachability of mankind”. By that he meant the unfortunate habit of civilized societies to sleep and to slum	View
2005	Maldives	To recall Sir Winston Churchill, it would not be enough to say that we will do all that we can. Rather, we would like to say that we will do all that is required, and then some, to	View
1998	Grenada	then spawned the Second World War. Yet, following the horrors of the Second World War, which prompted the setting up of the United Nations, the late Winston Churchill, in persuading the British people and, indeed, the rest of the world, to join in the second attempt to pursue peace among nations, advised that “To j	View
1997	Iceland	give the United Nations a clear and focused mandate and empower it to carry that mandate out? In my opinion our answer should be the same as the one Winston Churchill once gave: “Give us the tools and we will finish the job”. Once more we must urge all Member States to pay their contributions to the Organization fu	View
1995	Barbados	ch has called into question the very credibility of the Organization and the integrity of its peace-keeping function. We recall words of the late Sir Winston Churchill today: But Bosnia has not been the United Nations “finest hour”. But let us not forget that the United Nations is no more, no less, than the collecti	View
1993	Belize	ace is disrupted by fratricidal struggle. Everywhere the crushing burden of armaments - to employ a famous expression used by President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in 1941 - bids to drive our planet off its established course. The Second World War was partly fought, and this great Organization was largely establ	View
1993	Singapore	" victors, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, were sceptical of Roosevelt’s view of China’s ability to play a major role in the post-war world. Churchill’s insistence on including France among the elite group was met with similar scepticism by Roosevelt and Stalin. It will be even more difficult to dec	View
1992	United States	eams of freedom were frozen in the grip of cold war, and, instead of finding a common ground, we found ourselves at Ground Zero. Instead of living on Churchill's The President returned to the Chair. "broad, sunlit uplands", millions found that there was, as Arthur Koestler so chillingly wrote, "Darkness at N	View
1990	Solomon islands	it. We believe we should not resign ourselves to accepting peace as an illusion to be couched in terms of what the great English and world statesman, Winston Churchill, would term a human tragedy. My country, Solomon Islands, is a peaceful island nation. Peace is the only gift we can offer and contribute to this int	View
1990	Italy	, Iraq. Only firmness can open the way to such a settlement and prevent the start of a devastating conflagration. Remarking on the Munich Conference, Winston Churchill observed bitterly that the democracies had chosen dishonour to avoid war and in the end they had both war and honour. The lesson is still true. Today	View
1989	Colombia	books - the history of great plagues that were eradicated. We should be under no illusion? about the burdens that lie ahead. Victory will take time. Winston Churchill might have been describing the road before us today when he told the House of Commons in 1940: "Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journe	View
1986	Luxembourg	nited Nations into an even more effective instrument, more in conformity with its ideals. In acting this way, let us be inspired by the realism which Winston Churchill showed one day when he stated: (spoke in English) "The United Nations were not created to take us to heaven but to save us from hell."	View
1986	United Kingdom	the honor to address the General Assembly today on behalf of the European Community and its 12 Member States. Forty years ago, on 19 September 1946, Winston Churchill had this to say of Europe: "Over wide areas a vast quivering mass of tormented, hungry, care-worn and bewildered human beings gape at the ruins of th	View
1985	Colombia	impossible to overcome. We wish to honor the memories of the United States President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, who both expressed in the Declaration of the Atlantic their belief that "the disarmament of the aggressor nations was essential until it was possibl	View
1985	Uganda	consequences of lawlessness, political instability, economic decline and moral decay. Uganda, once described by one of the greatest of statesmen, Sir Winston Churchill, as the pearl of Africa, started out on its independence road with great promise and high hopes. During the first few years of its independence Ugand	View
1985	Brazil	ple ways of life, freedom does not flourish, but languishes in privilege and drowns in oppression. Shortly before the creation of the United Nations, Churchill and Roosevelt held a dialog at Hyde Park. Roosevelt asked how peace could be assured and Churchill replied, "By an Anglo-American alliance." But Roos	View
1984	UK	se who drew up the Charter of the United Nations now almost 40 years ago. 40. At Fulton, Missouri, only a year after the birth of the United Nations, Winston Churchill spoke of the political will needed to tum the fledgling Organization into a practical force for peace.	View
1979	Venezuela	nean to the West, is today bearing in a clear southerly direction, towards Latin America," 103. The menace of the crisis that occurred in 1914, which Churchill with keen perspicacity called a "world crisis', continues to threaten us. Hope for its disappearance is deep-rooted in the thinking of all mankind, o	View
1977	USA	ntrolling nuclear technology, restricting the arms trade and settling disputes by peaceful means. 9. When atomic weapons were used for the first time Winston Churchill described the power of the atom as a revelation long mercifully withheld from man . Since then we have learned, in Durrenmatt’s chilling words, that	View
1972	Uganda	of peace, It is the view of my delegation that we should not rest this search permanently of false premise on the premise of a balance of terror, as Winston Churchill called it. 2 )2. The existence of great armaments must surely under- He the eventuality of using them. As long as they exist, despite all the well-me	View
1969	Saudi Arabia	Arab people have been galvanized into action by the sacrificial resolve of the people of Palestine to regain their homeland. 14. Neither the late Mr. Churchill nor the late Mr. Roosevelt, nor the late Mr. Stalin for that matter, considered the nazi conquest of European territories as a fait accompli. can ass	View
1968	Colombia	133. I should like to borrow a vivid metaphor used by that great man Churchill to describe the role of small countries. Among the background material to the Yalta Conference of 4-11 February 1945, published by the United States	View
1967	Australia	we be in it at all?". 117. I think the pragmatic political test on both these questions — "What is the issue? Should we be mixed up in it?" — is the Churchillian one. When Churchill was asked whether Britain should go on fighting after the fall of France in 1940, Churchill answered: "What would happen if we	View
1966	Nigeria	flout the sanctions order in any event. As one eminent Journal pointed out recently, this case reminds one of the criticism by Mr. — as he then was — Winston Churchill of the similarly ambivalent position of the then United Kingdom Prime Minister on the occasion of the half-hearted decision of the League of Nations	View
1966	Ivory Coast	ction to this division will inevitably be the awakening of an insurgent national consciousness. 9. In a letter to Marshal Stalin dated 29 April 1945, Winston Churchill wrote: "There is not much comfort in looking into a future where you and the countries you dominate, plus the Communist Parties in many other States,	View
1965	China	-thirties to live up to the promise of the Covenant, the world was soon plunged into an unprecedented catastrophe. The League failed, as the late Sir Winston Churchill pointed out in 1946, "because the Governments of those days feared to face, the facts and act while time remained". We still have the time to face th	View
1964	Afghanistan	y ways, he played a role achieved by only few men in this century of the greatest achievements and events in the history of mankind. The death of Sir Winston Churchill is a grave event indeed. On this solemn occasion my Government has already offered its deep condolences to the Government of the United Kingdom and i	View
1964	Cyprus	60. Mr. President, I feel that before opening my statement it is my duty to pay tribute to the memory of Winston Churchill. The death of Winston Churchill deprived the world of a great man, but that great man is now possessed by history. 61. Mr. President, earlier in the	View
1964	Chad	om delegation on the painful loss suffered by the British nation in the death of one of the greatest statesmen of the first half of this century, Sir Winston Churchill. 2. Since the Chad delegation is speaking before this great Assembly at the beginning of the new year, we would like to extend, both personally to th	View
1964	United States of America	quently and resolutely that it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees than the noble spirit that left us the other day in London — Sir Winston Churchill. 128. As long as there are patriots, aggression will be met with resistance —whatever the cost. And the cost rises ever higher with the revolution in	View
1963	Spain	he treaty which the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union signed in Moscow on 5 August 1963. Spain does not feel towards anyone what Churchill described as "the fear of friendship". Still less does Spain have any misgivings because the great nuclear Powers have finally begun to listen to the	View
1960	India	Secondly, we believe that in the circumstances, where the balance of power in the world unfortunately rests on what Sir Winston Churchill called "the balance of horror", it is good for nations, and not only for the nations of Asia — and while I take up no position of telling other natio	View

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