Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1870
AUTHOR:
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
QUOTATION:
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”… 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, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
ATTRIBUTION:
WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech, House of Commons, May 13, 1940.—Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 6, p. 6220 (1974).
