The Gathering Storm (2002 TV Movie)

Linus Roache: Ralph Wigram

Quotes 

• Winston Churchill : There may be a war. I grant you that. Nevertheless we shall win.

  Ralph Wigram : How can you say that? It's just mindless optimism.

  Winston Churchill : [nods no]  When I was at school, I had a friend called Merlind Evans. And one day we were talking about what we would do when we were grown up. And I don't know why I said this, or, why I thought it, but I said, "One day in the future, Britain will be in great danger, and it will fall to *me* to save London and the Empire."

  Ralph Wigram : Schoolboy fantasy. I wanted to play for England or climb Everest.

  Winston Churchill : [half nod no]  My destiny. And I truly believe it.

  Ralph Wigram : You're an extraordinary man, Winston.

  Winston Churchill : I am, I know it.

  Ralph Wigram : Nobody but you could say that sort of thing and expect people to believe it.

  Winston Churchill : Destiny is what I believe in. Destiny commands. We must obey.

• Ralph Wigram : Nazism is more than just a political movement. It's a cult... a religion based on the idea of racial purity. Mankind, the Nazis believe is divided between... the man-gods and the subhumans... aliens who will be used as beasts of burden... or merely disposed of. Those with pure Aryan blood are the man-gods. The beasts are the Jews.