June 18, 2008

1901 – 1914: Rising Star

• The Maiden Speech – 18 February 1901, House of Commons
• The “Tattered Flag” – 13 May 1901, House of Commons
• Free Trade League – 19 February 1904, Free Trade Hall, Manchester
• Liberalism and Socialism – 4 May 1908, Kinnaird Hall, Dundee
• The Approaching Conflict – 29 January 1909, Victoria Hall, Nottingham
• The Liberties of Britain – 10 January 1910, Friends’ Institute, Birmingham

1915 – 1929: Nadir and Recovery

• The War – 5 June 1915, Dundee
• Bolshevism and Imperial Sedition – 4 November 1920, Canon Street Hotel, London
• “Present Dangers of the Socialist Movement” – 7 May 1924, Sun Hall, Liverpool
• The Gold Standard – 4 May 1925, House of Commons
• The General Strike – 3 May 1926, House of Commons
• A Disarmament Fable – 24 October 1928, Aldersbrook
• Tariffs and American Relations – 14 June 1929, Chingford, Essex

1930 – 1938: The Wilderness

• Our Duty in India – 18 March 1931, Albert Hall, London
• Air Parity Lost – 2 May 1935, House of Commons
• The Abdication – 10 December 1936, House of Commons
• The Danube Basin – 24 March 1938, House of Commons
• Munich – 5 October 1938, House of Commons
• The Defence of Freedom and Peace (“The Lights are going out”) – 16 October 1938, Broadcast to the United States and London

1939: In the Wings

• A Hush Over Europe – 8 August 1939
• War Speech – 3 September 1939, House of Commons

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1940: Finest Hour

• A House of Many Mansions – 20 January 1940, Broadcast London
• Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat – 13 May 1940, First Speech to the House of Commons as Prime Minister
• Be Ye Men of Valour – 19 May 1940, First Broadcast on BBC as Prime Minister
• We Shall Fight on the Beaches – 4 June 1940, House of Commons
• Their Finest Hour – 18 June 1940, House of Commons
• War of the Unknown Warriors – 14 July 1940, BBC Broadcast, London
• “The Few” – 20 August 1940, House of Commons
• Neville Chamberlain – 12 November 1940, House of Commons

1941-45: War Leader

• “Give Us the Tools” – 9 February 1941, Broadcast
• The Birth Throes of a Sublime Resolve (‘The Old Lion’) – 16 June 1941
• The Fourth Climacteric – 22 June 1941
• You Do Your Worst — And We Will Do Our Best – 14 July 1941, House of Commons
• Never Give In, Never, Never, Never – 29 October 1941, Harrow School
• Christmas Message 1941 – 24 December 1941, Washington, D.C.
• “Some Chicken; Some Neck” – 30 December 1941, Canadian Parliament
• The Price of Greatness is Responsibility – 1943, Harvard
• The Invasion of France – 6 June 1944, House of Commons
• The End of the War in Europe – 8 May 1945, Broadcast, London, and House of Commons
• This is Your Victory – 8 May 1945, Ministry of Health, London
• To V-E Day Crowds – 8 May 1945, London

1946 – 1963: Elder Statesman

• Sinews of Peace (Iron Curtain) – 5 March 1946
• The Roosevelt Fund – 18 November 1946, Broadcast
• The Council of Europe – 17 August 1949, Strasbourg
• Never Despair – 1 March 1955

• Citizen of United States – 9 April 1963