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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 528
AUTHOR: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
QUOTATION: I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
ATTRIBUTION: Prime Minister WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech, Lord Mayor’s luncheon, London, November 10, 1942.—Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 6, p. 6695 (1974).
SUBJECTS: England