The best leader of any country since U.S. presidents Lincoln and Jefferson. I hope we have more robust personalities like Churchill in charge of government in the future.
IF CHURCHILL DIDNT COME INTO POWER BRITAIN WOULD HAVE ACCEPTED HITLERS OFFER OF PEACE! Then what hope would the world have? Hitler would have turned Europe and West-Rusia into a war factory! Then the USA would have been humilated BY JAPAN,GERMANY,ITALY They would stand no chance of invading Europe THE AXIS WOULD HAVE BROUGHT THE FRONTLINE TO AMERICA! Who would have seeked peace GERMANY HAD THE BEST ARMY IN THE WORLD1938-41 They lost because of numbers an manufacturing! AND TAKING ON GREAT POWERS
Kind of awkward at 3:00 though, when Churchill let's one go mid sentence. Right in that poor bloke's face sitting on the left. I mean, I get it dude, you're a brilliant politician, philosopher, and orator. You moved nations to tears with your timeless wisdom and prophetic prose. But do you have to eat two tins of Beefereeno and a bag of Cheetos before you bust out a speech at the Friar's club? It's called respect, brah. It's called respect.
So important, and so popular a man, was Churchill that statues of him stand near parliaments and government halls throughout the Commonwealth, and streets throughout the world bear his name.
History will record that this man was not only the Greatest Englishman ever born but maybe the greatest man ever in mankind. Thank God we in the free world had him .
That you talk so favourable about this man is quite remarkable. His policy in 1940 which resulted in the Battle of Britain and enabled the Soviets to conquer half Europe. As an European I don't need a Stalin here. That this man became P.M. was a big error, maybe Chamberlain felt already quite sick in May '40. You lost your empire and you can talk about ravaged Coventry far into the future, but you can call any German city, and it's devastated.
@020Roger The criticism of Churchill here is ridiculous and a point that we dont understand. Stalin was evil but the situation is far more complex that this. Sometimes you must understand that one evil must be traded for another if the good in this world is to survive. Churchill fought with the Soviets because he had to. Also his policy? What? I dont understand the sentence about Chamberlain, the man who gave away Europe and resigned when the people of Britain needed him most.
He stood up against a powerful tyranny during a time where even he quietly doubted if they could prevail, he suffered from major depression and resisted all calls (and they were at one time the vast majority) from people in his government to surrender to Germany (so that these powerful men could maintain their own power). Yet everytime he spoke he spoke with conviction and direction and rose the morale of his population. If this isn't what represents great leadership I don't know what does.
germany was bombing the fuck out of london. this was total war and they say this war would be compared to a schoolyard skirmish compared to whats to come.
@muskie1976 London was nothing compared to what they did to Coventry. In 1947 as a little boy my father took me to the top of Coventry Cathedral tower (the rest of it had been leveled). Even then I was shocked at what I saw. It was as acity of rubble and ramshackled lean-tos. It was as though an atomic bomb had gone off. Southampton, Liverpool and Portsmouth weren't much better. But as Churchill said, we ask for no quarter: "You do your worst, and we'll do our best." The Germans were paid back
Superb speaker? Well I have too agree, but authorizing the RAF to drop bombs on "military" and "industrial" targets during the night in heavily populated zones is criminal we all know the chances of striking your target in almost complete darkness is minimal and unfortunatly many children who knew nothing of war were burned alive in their bedrooms
Unfortunately, war does not mean being sentimental: Churchill had to be sure that he eliminated or hampered the Germans abilities to make weapons. The children, while a sad commentary on war's effects unfortunately were in the wrong place at the wrong time and likely the sons and daughters of the wrong team (the Nazis.)
with all due respect to the americans i wish we could have more leaders in the UK like churchill hopefully cameron will be a strong and fair leader who wont bend to any whim or the united states and do what is in our best interests not the white houses. if we can then maybe both countries can be the better for it.
Clap Russia US, clap louder US. Amazing! Ahallow yanks, just because of sputnik, and a later than this speech by Winnie on the Iron Curtain, you took it literally from a semi-senile Winnie after the deperations of thought he suffered through the war.
The maturity of early 20th century economics caused WW!, and of course, WW!! when us europ[eans didn't fall down on our knees as required, and face up to the New World Order.
Pissess me off how Switxerland carry on like they do, well, severerly pissess me off. Swiss, my daughter visited them a few years ago, and she said, Swiss old women, total cows.
Fantastic historic speech from a great leader who stayed in London while the Germans bombarded night after night. He became the heart and soul of a just cause against pure evil. He truly never, never, never ever game in! Sir Winston - RIP (David Hance, Founder, Quotivate)
@boldertits sadly, I agree with you.But was Hiroshima/Nagasake needed? I think not - an offshore tour-de-force it should have been, on a japanese very low populated island maybe first, methinks.
Ah well yanks, you just got to live with what you did. No wonder you gather so much suspicion even to this day, for those two cruel days against, some innocent, humanity.
How did the British people didn't vote for Winston Churchill after the WW2?
That's why the British Empire fell down and London lost it's British values ....immigrants everywhere....that's what freedom gives you.....for every action there's a reaction....
Did you know Obama gave Gordon Brown back the bust of Churchill that sat in the oval office? So much for Anglo-American alliances. Is he a fool or what? Single handedly in a few hrs. he insulted our closest allie the UK. He is an idiot.
@joeyxl3456 , without these guys bulk of the world's population would have been 'Free' long ago, less blood shed,less loot from colonies--all could have been achieved with much less bloodshed, arrogance,deceit and war-mongering.
@ritubose Really? So you think the Nazi's would have just put down their weapons and walked away if we had just asked them nicely? I am a non-violent sort by nature but seriously, the Nazi's and the religious nuts of all flavours running riot need to be stopped now or western civilisation (or what is left of it, will fall. I do not want to live in some goose-stepping, Allah-praising nightmare. Thank goodness for Churchill and England for standing alone against Nazi's and fascists.
A magician of prose and master of men in battle. Remember Winston are the words leaving Westminster Abbey. Time may never know another great leader of men.
@MacRaeWarrior Churchill was a Conservative (yes I also know in his past he was in the Liberal Party for a while as well), the Conservative party is supposed to be centre-right. As for Hitler being a leftist - I think thats debatable - I mean take for instance the whole 'master race' idea that's more far right than far left.
@MacRaeWarrior No no no, Stalin was the murderous leftist, Hitler was a murderous rightist. If your going to criticize another persons political party, don't go Nazi crazy, at least get the extremes right.
@DaireBoldizsar hungary joined axis powers out of fear of nazi germany and soviet union.your country invaded yugoslavia and hungarians troops raped,tortured,murdered civilians and jews.sir winston churchill defended our island from hungary and the rest of the axis countries
@DaireBoldizsar churchill was a legend stfu. at a time when britain was the bollocks and no one fucked around with the uk. so many later goverments ran this country down to the ground. because there corrupt greedy and dont have the slightest inch of pride in them. shame on them
Righteous punishment for Coventry, and London,and Liverpool,and Birmingham,anf Glasgow,and Belfast,and Portsmouth,and Plymouth,and Dover............and Dachau,Auschwitz,Sobibor........Need i go on-you got your deserved punishment
@bulked; do you say Sod'em to the World's wretched communities? How rank you your sins and the stones we may cast against them? In plagiarism I ridicule you; you small bastard.
an idiotic comment. I am half British and German and now too much about that period in history to listen to this kind of pathetic nonsense. Shame on you.
I think we Americans speak more like Germans than Englishmen, Americans speak more with passion and Winston speaks like he is reading us a story, nevertheless it was a wonderful speech in text and meaning.
This is the most expression I have seen him speak with. It is my favorite of his speeches. I can see his humor show through too! I wish he DID find his way to America. Truly a great man!
As I am not a native-English speaker, I must say it is really hard for me to understand some expressions he uses. Is it because of my small, yet big for foreigners, vocabulary?Or maybe because he uses expressions that are no longer in use, and thus there is no need to learn in a 45 minutes English lesson?
Thank you in advance fellow Americans-Brits-Aussies...
He is speaking with a sophisticated vocabulary and using less common expressions. The expressions are still in use, but are more literary. Also, his style of speaking is more English than American. He was a great speaker and writer and had a very wide vocabulary.
These words would be recognized by most native English speakers, but many could not properly define them for you. (I mean, they've heard them before, but don't really understand them).
@RadiusBass The kind of vocabulary he's using used to be considered fairly standard formal language, but today is not in common use. Personally, I consider this a failing. I have no trouble following him, but I've always been of a literary bent and pride myself on my vocabulary, and am a native English speaker. As a second language, I'm not surprised you have trouble following it. I'm just a little disappointed native English speakers do.
this is supposed to have been one of the most memorable speeches heard in Congress, particularly occurring when it did.
Does anyone know how Churchill would have safely travelled to the US at that time? I don't think transatlantic air flights existed then. Certainly German intelligence would have known of his travel plans, whatever they were, and have made him a target...we sure did with Yamamoto, thank God.
he travelled by sea via hms duke of york. at that time the british navy was the most powerful fleet in the world so had plenty of protection for safe travel and they travelled in a zig-zag manner in case a u-boat had found them
and to keep the german intelligence off guard, british newspapers published photographs of churchill donating money on memorial day which in fact occured a few days later so it looked like he was still in britain when in fact he was in the united states
thanks and that must have been one hell of a convoy. Still kind of amazing when one considers the Germans were only a few miles away, with whatever technology existed at that time.
BTW, jomcgl1, is it true that all leaders had doubles at that time? One sees reference to it in fictional movies but I've never seen official confirmation or denial.
well franklin roosevelt is known to have used a double in 2 occasions. the first being in 1941 when he was visiting churchill off newfoundland. to keep the press and the germans off guard they used a double on the presidential yacht augusta to make it seem fdr was on holiday when he was on his way to meet the british prime minister. the second was during the tehran conference when he met churchill and stalin and fdr rode in a car alone to travel the roads in iran but his double had the escort!
fascinating! one hears that Hitler used doubles but I doubt it. BTW a friend of mine, now decesed, said that as a teenager living in pre-war northern Italy, he once saw Hitler and Mussolini in open cars roaring through his little village, mere yards away from where he stood. He said there were escorts in cars ahead and behind, but still no perception of overwhelming security presence.
good ole winston wanted the fate of the british empire to remain alive and dominant soon after ww2 by rejecting the pleas of british colonies such as india from taking independance. He wasnt the 100% master of brttains fate. He is not exactly accurate; I see that the end of ww2 saw that former colonies became masters of their own fate. The aftermath of ww2 is the best thing that could have happened for peoples freedom and liberty
It just goes to show you that anyone can do anything if they hav enough potential, Winston Churchill had a speech defect at a young age and yet look at him in this video and see how great he can speak in front of you and the rest of the world, god bless these men who against all odds remained true and vigolent achieved victory.
Not as much as you think-he was a member of the aristocracy who could have had 2 heads and still would have ended up as some sort of powerful politician
You do know how resilient Japan was yes?... I mean their were throwing themselves off cliffs instead of surrendering, it was seen as dishonourable to surrender.
The Allies wanted to get the war over and done with, so they nuked them. It seemed that they only gave in after a pummelling like that.
Japan would have nuked the U.S. if they had the capabilities, same with the Nazis. Just seems that the U.S. along with G.B. help created the H bomb first.
I'm proud to be Norwegian because of that :D .... "The Heroes of Telemark" unfortunately had to kill a bunch of civilians in sacrifice to prevent the Nazis getting the materials they needed to make a nuke ... oh the tragedies of war v_v
I know 14 people drowned in that fjord when they sank the ferry, it's so sad that it happened but that is war. These barrels are still down there, they lifted one and it's still as good when it left the factory!
Typical for one of the most backward people on the planet , never understood what it was all about. Keep yourself to your cult of stupidity and leave the rest to the developed world.
That's incredible. Already then when the war was still waging, he was suggesting the establishment of the United Nations so "that these catastrophoes do not engulf us a third time." What a visionary. What a leader. What a man of peace.
Churchill is one of the greatest characters who has ever lived and the Brits and the Americans are great peoples. Thanks for beating the shit out of the Nazi-Fascists in WW2. It costed your countries so many lives and it's incredible that some of the scum we have in Continental Europe still doesn't acknowledge that. Forgive them.
It was the strength and character of this outstanding human that kept British hopes alive in the face of tyranny. We could do with men like him in the modern era to solve a lot of the problems we have.
No, Wallace is sitting behind C on his left in the VP chair. Pretty sure Alban Barkley is immediately to C's right, but who is presiding with Wallace?
I'll bet Rayburn was missing and this was the Assistant Speaker, but one would have to go to a library and look at a microfilm of the newspaper for that event.
hard to imagine Rayburn missing for the hottest ticket in town. John McCormack was the majority leader, and it's not him either. Next would be the whips, Patrick Boland or Robert Ramspeck, though that's going pretty far down the list for such an event. Adolph Sabath was Dean of the House, but he and Rayburn were not on good terms. it looks a little like him, can't tell if he has a mustache or not. Must look in newspapers of the time for ID
The best leader of any country since U.S. presidents Lincoln and Jefferson. I hope we have more robust personalities like Churchill in charge of government in the future.
quidnick 1 year ago
IF CHURCHILL DIDNT COME INTO POWER BRITAIN WOULD HAVE ACCEPTED HITLERS OFFER OF PEACE! Then what hope would the world have? Hitler would have turned Europe and West-Rusia into a war factory! Then the USA would have been humilated BY JAPAN,GERMANY,ITALY They would stand no chance of invading Europe THE AXIS WOULD HAVE BROUGHT THE FRONTLINE TO AMERICA! Who would have seeked peace GERMANY HAD THE BEST ARMY IN THE WORLD1938-41 They lost because of numbers an manufacturing! AND TAKING ON GREAT POWERS
martynrobin121 1 year ago
@martynrobin121 no because we declared war against Germany before Winston was in power
brainraker123 1 year ago
Kind of awkward at 3:00 though, when Churchill let's one go mid sentence. Right in that poor bloke's face sitting on the left. I mean, I get it dude, you're a brilliant politician, philosopher, and orator. You moved nations to tears with your timeless wisdom and prophetic prose. But do you have to eat two tins of Beefereeno and a bag of Cheetos before you bust out a speech at the Friar's club? It's called respect, brah. It's called respect.
yisacknayrabin 1 year ago
So important, and so popular a man, was Churchill that statues of him stand near parliaments and government halls throughout the Commonwealth, and streets throughout the world bear his name.
MsPsycho29 1 year ago
History will record that this man was not only the Greatest Englishman ever born but maybe the greatest man ever in mankind. Thank God we in the free world had him .
TyneBridge56 1 year ago
Churchill is actually my 4x's great uncle. Kinda crazy.
FreedmFightr 1 year ago
He was a great speaker and a great man. The greatest british prime minister of XX century.
deepenhancer 1 year ago
That you talk so favourable about this man is quite remarkable. His policy in 1940 which resulted in the Battle of Britain and enabled the Soviets to conquer half Europe. As an European I don't need a Stalin here. That this man became P.M. was a big error, maybe Chamberlain felt already quite sick in May '40. You lost your empire and you can talk about ravaged Coventry far into the future, but you can call any German city, and it's devastated.
020Roger 1 year ago
@020Roger The criticism of Churchill here is ridiculous and a point that we dont understand. Stalin was evil but the situation is far more complex that this. Sometimes you must understand that one evil must be traded for another if the good in this world is to survive. Churchill fought with the Soviets because he had to. Also his policy? What? I dont understand the sentence about Chamberlain, the man who gave away Europe and resigned when the people of Britain needed him most.
crt147 1 year ago
He stood up against a powerful tyranny during a time where even he quietly doubted if they could prevail, he suffered from major depression and resisted all calls (and they were at one time the vast majority) from people in his government to surrender to Germany (so that these powerful men could maintain their own power). Yet everytime he spoke he spoke with conviction and direction and rose the morale of his population. If this isn't what represents great leadership I don't know what does.
johnnyfry2 1 year ago
Perhaps, if the world ever descends into World War again, great men may once again emerge.
TKainZero 1 year ago
pos illumin dcvr
thum up if undrstnd
all his base are belong to me
AnUnlimitedRecord 1 year ago
3:15 it's interesting the way churchill refers to us almost as one people and what he says about japan is true in hindsight (atomic bombs)
superdan1875 1 year ago
germany was bombing the fuck out of london. this was total war and they say this war would be compared to a schoolyard skirmish compared to whats to come.
muskie1976 1 year ago
@muskie1976 London was nothing compared to what they did to Coventry. In 1947 as a little boy my father took me to the top of Coventry Cathedral tower (the rest of it had been leveled). Even then I was shocked at what I saw. It was as acity of rubble and ramshackled lean-tos. It was as though an atomic bomb had gone off. Southampton, Liverpool and Portsmouth weren't much better. But as Churchill said, we ask for no quarter: "You do your worst, and we'll do our best." The Germans were paid back
mc0558 1 year ago
America needs a Churchill...the hour came bringing with it a Community Organiser...
politicopol 1 year ago
Churchill undoubtedly had iron balls the size of watermelons.
PimplyButtcheeks 1 year ago
@PimplyButtcheeks
LOL - well said!!!
dylanskriloff 1 year ago
Superb speaker? Well I have too agree, but authorizing the RAF to drop bombs on "military" and "industrial" targets during the night in heavily populated zones is criminal we all know the chances of striking your target in almost complete darkness is minimal and unfortunatly many children who knew nothing of war were burned alive in their bedrooms
cheifbrownface 1 year ago
@cheifbrownface One word: Coventry.
Unfortunately, war does not mean being sentimental: Churchill had to be sure that he eliminated or hampered the Germans abilities to make weapons. The children, while a sad commentary on war's effects unfortunately were in the wrong place at the wrong time and likely the sons and daughters of the wrong team (the Nazis.)
shadowkitty56 1 year ago
Superb Speaker
StuartLoria 1 year ago
you British are scum Hitler was a hero he was going to rid this filthy planet of Jews
the nazis will rise again big and power fuller than before
Elberiiver11 1 year ago
@fuck off and die you dirty scum
deanc93UK 1 year ago
Gives me goosebumps.
WinstonChurchill 1 year ago
The Greatest Englishman who has ever lived ...Thank God we had him ...
TyneBridge56 1 year ago
does anyone else get chills when he speaks at 3:43?
dchstrack 1 year ago
with all due respect to the americans i wish we could have more leaders in the UK like churchill hopefully cameron will be a strong and fair leader who wont bend to any whim or the united states and do what is in our best interests not the white houses. if we can then maybe both countries can be the better for it.
mrorange101 1 year ago
Clap Russia US, clap louder US. Amazing! Ahallow yanks, just because of sputnik, and a later than this speech by Winnie on the Iron Curtain, you took it literally from a semi-senile Winnie after the deperations of thought he suffered through the war.
closertofiftythanyew 1 year ago
The maturity of early 20th century economics caused WW!, and of course, WW!! when us europ[eans didn't fall down on our knees as required, and face up to the New World Order.
Pissess me off how Switxerland carry on like they do, well, severerly pissess me off. Swiss, my daughter visited them a few years ago, and she said, Swiss old women, total cows.
closertofiftythanyew 1 year ago
we taught hitler not to mess with england so small we are but much stronger
butcher809 1 year ago
Fantastic historic speech from a great leader who stayed in London while the Germans bombarded night after night. He became the heart and soul of a just cause against pure evil. He truly never, never, never ever game in! Sir Winston - RIP (David Hance, Founder, Quotivate)
DavidHanceQuotivate 1 year ago 2
thank you so much for posting this, it's an amazing recording of an amazing speech.
jmpierce 1 year ago
No nukes would have led to a third world war.
boldertits 1 year ago
@boldertits sadly, I agree with you.But was Hiroshima/Nagasake needed? I think not - an offshore tour-de-force it should have been, on a japanese very low populated island maybe first, methinks.
Ah well yanks, you just got to live with what you did. No wonder you gather so much suspicion even to this day, for those two cruel days against, some innocent, humanity.
closertofiftythanyew 1 year ago
I'm a speech analysis on this, when was this speech given (after, during the war?) any helpful infowould be great
24mmirg 1 year ago
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
Were two nations ever so blessed with the right men, at the right time?
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I have to wonder where such men are, today.
skeilak 1 year ago
How did the British people didn't vote for Winston Churchill after the WW2?
That's why the British Empire fell down and London lost it's British values ....immigrants everywhere....that's what freedom gives you.....for every action there's a reaction....
Jeeepez 1 year ago
Great!
Deukal0 1 year ago
Did you know Obama gave Gordon Brown back the bust of Churchill that sat in the oval office? So much for Anglo-American alliances. Is he a fool or what? Single handedly in a few hrs. he insulted our closest allie the UK. He is an idiot.
debzeppeliniv 1 year ago 3
@debzeppeliniv ....That's because fuckface Obama is a muslim.
pastuso1bc 1 year ago
@debzeppeliniv
I never knew that, that saddens me, I was proud of that bust been there.
DeejayDREAM 1 year ago
@debzeppeliniv dude you have just restored my faith in america!
jambamz 1 year ago
@joeyxl3456 , without these guys bulk of the world's population would have been 'Free' long ago, less blood shed,less loot from colonies--all could have been achieved with much less bloodshed, arrogance,deceit and war-mongering.
ritubose 1 year ago
@ritubose Really? So you think the Nazi's would have just put down their weapons and walked away if we had just asked them nicely? I am a non-violent sort by nature but seriously, the Nazi's and the religious nuts of all flavours running riot need to be stopped now or western civilisation (or what is left of it, will fall. I do not want to live in some goose-stepping, Allah-praising nightmare. Thank goodness for Churchill and England for standing alone against Nazi's and fascists.
ArcadianQueen 1 year ago
Wow! Just Wow!
jenwill11 1 year ago
In my opinion, the greatest speech of the war. Our Congress ate it up. Well done Sir Winston! Long live the Anglo-American Alliance!
USA1848 1 year ago
wow just wow
joeyxl3456 1 year ago
shameless,arrogant,self-assured warmonger.
ritubose 1 year ago
@ritubose flyboy without these guys the human cattle trucks would still be rolling
joeyxl3456 1 year ago
God bless America and God bless England.
slickwillywize 1 year ago 3
A magician of prose and master of men in battle. Remember Winston are the words leaving Westminster Abbey. Time may never know another great leader of men.
ObltKG4 2 years ago
I wish I lived during these times. The world saw its brightest and its darkest days in mere decades.
Zelrio28 2 years ago 2
This is what politics should be like today. Exciting, relevant and positive!
MrUKIndependence 2 years ago 3
Churchill was a war criminal who made ally with communist russia!! He made teh largest terror bombings against civilans with the help of Usa!!!
DaireBoldizsar 2 years ago
@DaireBoldizsar or should I say ElbeRiver - leave it alone man we all know your right wing stance and your Hitler fanclub
tshaines 2 years ago
@tshaines You do know Churchill was right-wing, correct? Hitler was one of the most murderous leftists this planet has ever seen.
MacRaeWarrior 1 year ago
@MacRaeWarrior Churchill was a Conservative (yes I also know in his past he was in the Liberal Party for a while as well), the Conservative party is supposed to be centre-right. As for Hitler being a leftist - I think thats debatable - I mean take for instance the whole 'master race' idea that's more far right than far left.
tshaines 1 year ago
@tshaines It entirely depends on which spectrum you use.
Churchill is a man words cannot begin to describe without the word hero being involved.
However a political ideology cannot be determined upon the history of a political party.
What is Conservative today would have been seen as Socialism then.
As for Hitler I would say that he was far right (using the more modernly used spectrum) In other words Fascist.
STOPTHEEU 1 year ago
@MacRaeWarrior hitler was the farthest thing from a leftist I think the world may have ever seen, perhaps surpassed only by caesar or caligula.
pfh0205 1 year ago
@MacRaeWarrior No no no, Stalin was the murderous leftist, Hitler was a murderous rightist. If your going to criticize another persons political party, don't go Nazi crazy, at least get the extremes right.
khutchins10 1 year ago
@DaireBoldizsar You are a complete Ass
csf279 1 year ago
@DaireBoldizsar
immigrant scum.get on your knees and thank god for winston churchill!
you would still me in a mud hut if not for the british empire
bishopwearmouth 1 year ago
@DaireBoldizsar hungary joined axis powers out of fear of nazi germany and soviet union.your country invaded yugoslavia and hungarians troops raped,tortured,murdered civilians and jews.sir winston churchill defended our island from hungary and the rest of the axis countries
kingrichyrich88 1 year ago
@DaireBoldizsar churchill was a legend stfu. at a time when britain was the bollocks and no one fucked around with the uk. so many later goverments ran this country down to the ground. because there corrupt greedy and dont have the slightest inch of pride in them. shame on them
stokie1999999 1 year ago
A bit like Fox News was for George W then
bulked 2 years ago
Mörder von Dresden !!!
carinhall1 2 years ago
@carin:
Hi donkey, the people here write in english, i know that you not understand the messages and the movie. You are a stupid donkey...
sagres100 2 years ago
@sagres100 : Der Esel bist Du. -Sie sollen Deutsch lernen !
carinhall1 2 years ago
@carin:
Great answer! Now know all people that you are a stupid idiot. XDDDDD
sagres100 2 years ago
Keep ya hair on mate.
omsct 2 years ago
Genau!
Messier83 2 years ago
COVENTRY
primative276 2 years ago
@primative276 : Die Engländer haben in Deutschland 1000 mal COVENTRY veranstaltet.
carinhall1 2 years ago
u started it
blobby1972 2 years ago
Don't be silly now.
omsct 2 years ago
Oh fuck you.
catscatscatz 2 years ago
Righteous punishment for Coventry, and London,and Liverpool,and Birmingham,anf Glasgow,and Belfast,and Portsmouth,and Plymouth,and Dover............and Dachau,Auschwitz,Sobibor........Need i go on-you got your deserved punishment
bulked 2 years ago
Elberiver with yet another Youtube account! is this legal!
tshaines 2 years ago
@bulked
I'm from Birmingham you little shit
You Krauts deserved EVERYTHING you got, especially on the eastern front.
superdan1875 1 year ago
@bulked you do your worst, i hope and pray that one day a bomb falls from the sky and lands on your house, then you would know what punishment is
TheMattyavfc 1 year ago
@bulked; do you say Sod'em to the World's wretched communities? How rank you your sins and the stones we may cast against them? In plagiarism I ridicule you; you small bastard.
trufflesmell 1 year ago
Loool boastful Mussolini?
Funny that Churchill in earlier times had professed himself to be an admirer of the Duce.
How things change.
ameroffsky 2 years ago
Strange that you get red arrows for speaking the truth to those who don't want to confront it. It's a sad fact, but you're right.
omsct 2 years ago
The Master Orator
brianclough 2 years ago 7
an idiotic comment. I am half British and German and now too much about that period in history to listen to this kind of pathetic nonsense. Shame on you.
1977peanut 2 years ago
Long live America and Great Britain!
Down with Germany and the german people!
Never ever trust a german!
JUSAJJ 2 years ago
@JUSAJJ I'm American and you sir, are a complete simpleton.
s1lentwarrior 2 years ago 6
My father is German and im British-should i not trust him, you stupid piece of dickcheese
bulked 2 years ago
Best. Speech. EVER!
PandaMachinima 2 years ago
the germans only screamed
this is passion
Denniskw 2 years ago 3
Amazing!
jamiejohnson1611 2 years ago
I think we Americans speak more like Germans than Englishmen, Americans speak more with passion and Winston speaks like he is reading us a story, nevertheless it was a wonderful speech in text and meaning.
DanielJohnLeahy 2 years ago
what are you talking about germans dont talk with passion they just scream loudly naturally
NorthEndFan 2 years ago
americans is talked with showmanship. english is talked with class...
eggheadAKAspensley 2 years ago
Are you serious-Americans are the only people on earth to speak English and still fuck it up
bulked 2 years ago
This is the most expression I have seen him speak with. It is my favorite of his speeches. I can see his humor show through too! I wish he DID find his way to America. Truly a great man!
littlebosqueak 2 years ago 3
The man had a heart attack 24hrs before this speech the world and your life would be very different if it was 4 WINSTON
giro158 2 years ago
what a great man...ultimate respect surely the greatest leader..
DeejayDREAM 2 years ago 4
3:43 - Goosebumps.
WinstonChurchill 2 years ago
Brilliant.
kaisersuze425 2 years ago
As I am not a native-English speaker, I must say it is really hard for me to understand some expressions he uses. Is it because of my small, yet big for foreigners, vocabulary?Or maybe because he uses expressions that are no longer in use, and thus there is no need to learn in a 45 minutes English lesson?
Thank you in advance fellow Americans-Brits-Aussies...
RadiusBass 2 years ago 2
His style of speaking was more popular at the time and has faded since. I am an American and I have to work harder to follow as well.
danond 2 years ago
He is speaking with a sophisticated vocabulary and using less common expressions. The expressions are still in use, but are more literary. Also, his style of speaking is more English than American. He was a great speaker and writer and had a very wide vocabulary.
These words would be recognized by most native English speakers, but many could not properly define them for you. (I mean, they've heard them before, but don't really understand them).
ronpaul2008rocks 2 years ago 3
@RadiusBass The kind of vocabulary he's using used to be considered fairly standard formal language, but today is not in common use. Personally, I consider this a failing. I have no trouble following him, but I've always been of a literary bent and pride myself on my vocabulary, and am a native English speaker. As a second language, I'm not surprised you have trouble following it. I'm just a little disappointed native English speakers do.
pdarcke 2 years ago
epic. wonderful.
suckd2 2 years ago 4
IT WAS ALL ME! LOL.
WinstonChurchill 2 years ago
that was a good speech man! lol..have you thought about vlogging? lol..
NICKRITZER 2 years ago
we need more people like Winston Churchill, he was truly a great man
Ourumov66 2 years ago 21
Churchill was right, Germany and Japan were taught lessons which they and world have never forgotten and will never forget.
richyloike 2 years ago 22
Im evil
BritishWarLord 2 years ago
1276, whats your problem!!!!
maccol43 2 years ago
churchill hated Hitler!!! He was a true Englishman, God Bless Him
maccol43 2 years ago 9
one of the best churchill speech's iv heard
RFCNO172 2 years ago 9
this is supposed to have been one of the most memorable speeches heard in Congress, particularly occurring when it did.
Does anyone know how Churchill would have safely travelled to the US at that time? I don't think transatlantic air flights existed then. Certainly German intelligence would have known of his travel plans, whatever they were, and have made him a target...we sure did with Yamamoto, thank God.
1276epr 2 years ago
he travelled by sea via hms duke of york. at that time the british navy was the most powerful fleet in the world so had plenty of protection for safe travel and they travelled in a zig-zag manner in case a u-boat had found them
jomcgl1 2 years ago
and to keep the german intelligence off guard, british newspapers published photographs of churchill donating money on memorial day which in fact occured a few days later so it looked like he was still in britain when in fact he was in the united states
jomcgl1 2 years ago
thanks and that must have been one hell of a convoy. Still kind of amazing when one considers the Germans were only a few miles away, with whatever technology existed at that time.
BTW, jomcgl1, is it true that all leaders had doubles at that time? One sees reference to it in fictional movies but I've never seen official confirmation or denial.
1276epr 2 years ago
well franklin roosevelt is known to have used a double in 2 occasions. the first being in 1941 when he was visiting churchill off newfoundland. to keep the press and the germans off guard they used a double on the presidential yacht augusta to make it seem fdr was on holiday when he was on his way to meet the british prime minister. the second was during the tehran conference when he met churchill and stalin and fdr rode in a car alone to travel the roads in iran but his double had the escort!
jomcgl1 2 years ago
fascinating! one hears that Hitler used doubles but I doubt it. BTW a friend of mine, now decesed, said that as a teenager living in pre-war northern Italy, he once saw Hitler and Mussolini in open cars roaring through his little village, mere yards away from where he stood. He said there were escorts in cars ahead and behind, but still no perception of overwhelming security presence.
1276epr 2 years ago
I would of expected a carrier would of taken him or been used for refuel of an airplane.
WarpReactor 2 years ago
Just fucking brilliant.
kingsgate57 2 years ago 2
Why does he put his hands behind the collar of his coat?
pipeorganloverNJP 2 years ago
Oratory technique i believe.
WinstonChurchill 2 years ago 2
Churchill's prediction came true: Japan was taught a lesson that neither they nor the world ever forgot.
pipeorganloverNJP 2 years ago 2
I know of his speech defect, so is that why he sounds like he's speaking with great effort?
pipeorganloverNJP 2 years ago
whats so funny around 1:20
Oneandoneself 2 years ago
good ole winston wanted the fate of the british empire to remain alive and dominant soon after ww2 by rejecting the pleas of british colonies such as india from taking independance. He wasnt the 100% master of brttains fate. He is not exactly accurate; I see that the end of ww2 saw that former colonies became masters of their own fate. The aftermath of ww2 is the best thing that could have happened for peoples freedom and liberty
mechysonu1 2 years ago
It just goes to show you that anyone can do anything if they hav enough potential, Winston Churchill had a speech defect at a young age and yet look at him in this video and see how great he can speak in front of you and the rest of the world, god bless these men who against all odds remained true and vigolent achieved victory.
lileric132000 2 years ago 3
Not as much as you think-he was a member of the aristocracy who could have had 2 heads and still would have ended up as some sort of powerful politician
bulked 2 years ago
Nice to see those supporting the democratic world have removed my previous comment - so much for freedom of speech.
Hypocrisy!
Catz007 2 years ago
No comments have been removed from this channel - don't know where you're coming from?
tshaines 2 years ago
"Comment removed by author". Do you know what "author" means, idiot?
mankykid1 2 years ago
What if I told you I didn't remove it?
Catz007 2 years ago
Comment removed
joeman3429 2 years ago
lol! So be it.
Catz007 2 years ago
Don't call him an idiot. "Comment removed by author" means the person who wrote it, deleted it - NOT the video poster.
herp derp
Darbyjack 2 years ago 5
I would say you have clumsy fingers?
joeman3429 2 years ago
Churchill was the only European politician at that time who was clean, and up to the task.
11month11day11our 2 years ago 2
na im pretty sure he did speed like alot of the others
Hoooyeeeaaah321 2 years ago
A great statesman and inspirational orator!
jackinla8 2 years ago 6
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Catz007 2 years ago
You do know how resilient Japan was yes?... I mean their were throwing themselves off cliffs instead of surrendering, it was seen as dishonourable to surrender.
The Allies wanted to get the war over and done with, so they nuked them. It seemed that they only gave in after a pummelling like that.
Japan would have nuked the U.S. if they had the capabilities, same with the Nazis. Just seems that the U.S. along with G.B. help created the H bomb first.
TheStarlessAeon 2 years ago 2
Look up the storey of the "heavy water "from Norway
Tralgit 2 years ago
I'm proud to be Norwegian because of that :D .... "The Heroes of Telemark" unfortunately had to kill a bunch of civilians in sacrifice to prevent the Nazis getting the materials they needed to make a nuke ... oh the tragedies of war v_v
TheStarlessAeon 2 years ago
I know 14 people drowned in that fjord when they sank the ferry, it's so sad that it happened but that is war. These barrels are still down there, they lifted one and it's still as good when it left the factory!
Tralgit 2 years ago
Typical for one of the most backward people on the planet , never understood what it was all about. Keep yourself to your cult of stupidity and leave the rest to the developed world.
Tralgit 2 years ago
That's incredible. Already then when the war was still waging, he was suggesting the establishment of the United Nations so "that these catastrophoes do not engulf us a third time." What a visionary. What a leader. What a man of peace.
davidthegreen 2 years ago 6
churchill was elected as the greatest britishman ever
and i think the voters were wright!
he represents the typical british attitudes as drinking, smoking, warmongering, violence, opressing other peoples and hypocrisy at the very most
with his haircut he looks like an early skinhead
wolke969 2 years ago
yes, we`re bastards and proud of it shit for brains.
If you dont like Churchil, why watch videos about him
bulked 2 years ago 4
He was bald. Imean. You are a fucking idiot.
catscatscatz 2 years ago
Churchill is one of the greatest characters who has ever lived and the Brits and the Americans are great peoples. Thanks for beating the shit out of the Nazi-Fascists in WW2. It costed your countries so many lives and it's incredible that some of the scum we have in Continental Europe still doesn't acknowledge that. Forgive them.
CaesarAugustus1987 2 years ago 6
long live churchill best politician of all times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..
meesineffer 2 years ago 2
It was the strength and character of this outstanding human that kept British hopes alive in the face of tyranny. We could do with men like him in the modern era to solve a lot of the problems we have.
Troy36s 2 years ago 3
Greatest Prime minister of all time!
come back Churchill save us from the weak government we have now
whitebrothersuperior 3 years ago 10
I totally agree with you!
tshaines 2 years ago
GREAT MAN!
324wilson 3 years ago 5
who is sitting in raeburn's seat as Speaker? Looks like Alban Barkley to Churchill's right.
ciroalb3 3 years ago
Vice-president Henry Wallace
1276epr 2 years ago
No, Wallace is sitting behind C on his left in the VP chair. Pretty sure Alban Barkley is immediately to C's right, but who is presiding with Wallace?
ciroalb3 2 years ago
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1276epr 2 years ago
doesn't really look like Sam Rayburn, does it.
1276epr 2 years ago
I'll bet Rayburn was missing and this was the Assistant Speaker, but one would have to go to a library and look at a microfilm of the newspaper for that event.
1276epr 2 years ago
hard to imagine Rayburn missing for the hottest ticket in town. John McCormack was the majority leader, and it's not him either. Next would be the whips, Patrick Boland or Robert Ramspeck, though that's going pretty far down the list for such an event. Adolph Sabath was Dean of the House, but he and Rayburn were not on good terms. it looks a little like him, can't tell if he has a mustache or not. Must look in newspapers of the time for ID
ciroalb3 2 years ago
Fantastic.
wernerbh 3 years ago 2
He was awake when all the others, in europe, were asleep.
valdegally 3 years ago 11
A great man, regardless of nationality. I don't think he hated Americans, but they sure tried his patience at times.
briangpz 3 years ago 5
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else Winston churchill.
m52spy 3 years ago 4
his mum was american but his dad fought in the british army just like he did hes british through and through really inside he hated yanks ! :P
Palacetilidie 3 years ago
how does he have a british accent. I thought he was from the u.s.a? am i wrong or do i have something mixed up?
eric88eric88 3 years ago