Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
528
AUTHOR:
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (18741965)
QUOTATION:
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
ATTRIBUTION:
Prime Minister WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech, Lord Mayors luncheon, London, November 10, 1942.Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 18971963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 6, p. 6695 (1974).