Quotes from Winston S. Churchill

There had been many signs during the Conference that the Soviet Government sincerely desired permanent friendship with Britain and the United States.

I have lost my heart! … Fascism has rendered a service to the entire world.

In our own fevered, changing, and precarious age, where all is in flux and nothing is accepted, we must survey with respect a period when, with only three hundred thousand soldiers, widespread peace in the entire known world was maintained from generation to generation, and when the first pristine impulse of Christianity lifted men's souls to the contemplation of new and larger harmonies beyond the ordered world around them.

Afortunadamente «los árboles no crecen hasta el cielo» y las ofensivas, por victoriosas que sean, pierden su fuerza inicial y se agotan con el terreno ganado.

Thus we see a succession of partisan actions continuing without intermission for nearly twenty years, each injury repeated with interest, each oscillation more violent, each risk more grave, until at last it seemed that the sabre itself must be invoked to cool the blood and the passions that were rife.

Silence is the secret of war.' —PRIOR

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

All Nature smiles, and here at last is a land where white men may rule and prosper. As yet only the indolent Kaffir enjoys its bounty, and, according to the antiquated philosophy of Liberalism, it is to such that it should for ever belong.

Fuller, the seventeenth-century writer, wrote of Wyclif's preachers, "These men were sentinels against an army of enemies until God sent Luther to relieve them." In Oxford Wyclifite tradition lingered in Bible study until the Reformation.

I was so untutored as to suppose that all I had to do was to think out what was right and express it fearlessly.

Three airborne divisions were to be delivered safely and in darkness on to their objectives, together with a number of special parties to stir and encourage the seething Resistance Movement.

But now there was a classic example of "Order, counter-order, disorder".

sufferance is the badge" of all who have to deal with the Kremlin.

This day, we are masters of our fate; the task which has been set before us is not above our strengths; its pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance.

can best be described as one of these orators who, before they get up, do not know what they are going to say, when they are speaking do not know what they are saying, and when they have sat down, do not know what they have said

The successful British air attack on the Italian Fleet at Taranto, throwing modern first-class battleships out of action for many months, profoundly impressed the Japanese Navy with the power and possibilities of the new air arm, especially when combined with surprise.

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

In total war it is quite impossible to draw any precise line between military and non-military problems.

A bomber force of no mean size could be made available, and would feel honoured to share with their American colleagues the dangers of striking at the heart of the enemy.

The drastic application of economic sanctions in July 1941 brought to a head the internal crisis in Japanese politics.

I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticise themselves more than enough.

Democracy does not favour continuity. The Englishman will not, except on great occasions, be denied the indulgence of kicking out the Ministers of the Crown whoever they are and of reversing their policy whatever it is.

En aquellos días duros, la derrota no era juzgada con indulgencia por los extenuados aliados y todos tuvimos que sobreponernos a ello, con cortesía que apenas velaba el menosprecio y con simpatía que apenas dominaba al resentimiento. Y he de rendir aquí un tributo a la dignidad y al valor tranquilo del ministro italiano y al respeto que supo inspirar a todos en aquellas tristes circunstancias.

I, whose youth was passed in the august, unchallenged and tranquil glories of the Victorian era, may well feel a thrill in invoking once more the prayer and the anthem, "God save the Queen!