Army Quote by Winston Churchill

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

— Winston Churchill

We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the…

— Winston Churchill

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but…

— George VI

London is a great city full of amazing people from all backgrounds and when Londoners face adversity, we always pull together. We stand up…

— Sadiq Khan

London's like a forest ... we shall be lost in it.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are…

— Ian Blair

Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil! Who from destruction save us; who from spoil Protect the sons of peace, who traffic or who…

— George Crabbe

I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as…

— Hermann Goring

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are…

— Emma Thompson

These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians,…

— Winston Churchill

“Battles against Rome have been lost and won before, but hope was never abandoned, since we were always here in reserve. We, the choicest…

— Tacitus

You ask why London has to 'stand for' anything. One response is that in fact it always inevitably does. One could say at the…

— Doreen Massey