Opening in: 19 daysAn exhibition organized by the
Churchill Archives Centre and
the Morgan Library & Museum
JUNE 8, 2012 - SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street
New York City
View Map > Soldier. Statesman. Artist. An honorary U.S. citizen.
World leader. Masterful speaker. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Principal figure in the Allied victory in World War II.
His words? nearly 50 years after his death.
World leader. Masterful speaker. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Principal figure in the Allied victory in World War II.
His words? nearly 50 years after his death.
Leadership.
Learn More."You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word: victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror..."
- Winston Churchill, 1940
Action.
Learn More."Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - Winston Churchill, 1898
Impact.
Learn More.He has been quoted by Presidents Obama, George W. Bush, and Clinton. Churchill's speeches have even inspired some of Angelina Jolie's tattoos.
New York.
Learn More.The city of his mother's birth. His gateway to the United States. The first and last American city that Churchill visited. The host city for a new Churchill exhibition.
- “It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do”
- “You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word: it is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror…”
- “I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter”
- “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result”
- “If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care”
- “The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings”
- “Give us the tools, and we will finish the job”
- “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent”
- “Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory”
- “We are confronted with the monstrosity of the Totalitarian State. All are to think alike. No one is to disagree.”
- “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind”
- “For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself”
- “Cultured people are merely the glittering scum which floats upon the deep river of production”
- “The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope”
- “…never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense”
- “Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed”
- “There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them”
- “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
- “We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow-worm”
- “By the way, I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British, instead of the other way round, I might have got here on my own”
- “So they [the British Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent”
- “I am 25 today. It is terrible to think how little time remains”
- “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat”
Websites to Visit
The Morgan Library & MuseumThe Churchill Archives Centre
Churchill's papers
The Churchill Center
Timeline: Churchill and the Great Republic
The Churchill Archive online
Winston Churchill goes digital (NY Times)
Churchill and America virtual exhibition
Churchill's Paintings
Sir Martin Gilbert online
Life of Churchill online exhibition
The Churchill Centre for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy
Winston Churchill (History.com)
British Propaganda Posters of the Second World War
Things to Do, See, and Read
The Morgan Library Film SeriesTina Santi Flaherty sponsored Churchill Lecture series at Roosevelt House
English Speaking Union public speaking event - June 16, 2012
Research Paper competition by the Churchill Center - due September 15, 2012
Churchill: The Power of Words, by Sir Martin Gilbert
Churchill and related speeches (Churchill Center)
Selected Speeches of Winston Churchill (Churchill Center)
Churchill Speeches and Radio Broadcasts
Barack Obama closes his Westminster speech with a Churchill quote
Winston Churchill (BBC History)
David Cameron on Winston Churchill
Past Prime Ministers (10 Downing Street)
Churchill Biography (A&E television)
Churchill collectables (Antiques Roadshow, PBS)
Places to Visit
The War RoomsChartwell - Churchill's home
Blenheim Palace -- where Churchill was born
Franklin D Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
National Churchill Museum
Bletchley Park
What Else?
Keep the Spirit of '45 AliveChurchill College, Cambridge
The writings of Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
USS Winston S. Churchill
Churchill: The Power of Words
an exhibition organized by:THE CHURCHILL ARCHIVES CENTRE
HOUSED AT CHURCHILL COLLEGE,CAMBRIDGE, UK
Churchill Archives Centre Web site
THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM
225 MADISON AVENUENEW YORK CITY
The Morgan Web site
