Winston Churchill Europe Quotations

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

If we can stand up to Hitler, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe...All these famous cities...lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its 300,000,000 or 400,000,000 people would enjoy.

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.

We are with Europe but not of it. We are linked, not combined. We are interested and associated, not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words that were used of old - Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the Host? - we should reply with the Shunamite woman: "Nay sir, for we dwell among our own people".

An iron curtain has descended over Europe.