"[...] up with which I will not put."
Solution 1:
- This is the sort of English I will not put up with.
"With" is a preposition (and it's "wrong" to end a sentence with one.)
- This is the sort of English with which I will not put up.
"Up" is still a preposition, so we gotta change it again.
- This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.
And there we have Churchill's response.
(PS. I am ignoring whether it's actually his response, or his altered response, or what have you, and focusing on the initial question. :) )
Solution 2:
It sounded stupid because the normal way of saying that is "this is the sort of English I won't put up with" which ends in a preposition.
He was making a point that sometimes it is better to end a sentence with a preposition rather than slavishly following alleged rules. (Alleged because it IS ok to end a sentence with a preposition.)
Solution 3:
As I learned the quote, he didn't have a problem with the "English" involved, but with the prescriptivist busybody who had red-pencilled one of his speeches.
The quote, as I learned it, was "This is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."