Quotes from Winston S. Churchill

It has been said that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat!

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck...One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

I could never run for President of the United States. All that handshaking of people I didn't give a damn about would kill me. Ten minutes here. Ten minutes there…Not for me.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because . . . it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Cuando, el 18 de julio de 1871, se consolidó el triunfo de los alemanes por la proclamación del Imperio alemán en el palacio de Versalles, se abrió un nuevo volumen de la historia de Europa: «Europa —se dijo entonces— ha perdido un ama de casa y ha ganado un dueño».

The ugly truth is revealed that fear is the foundation of obedience.

Lo que hemos ganado por las armas en medio año —dijo Moltke— debemos protegerlo con las armas por medio siglo, si queremos que no nos lo vuelvan a arrebatar».

As Lord Kitchener observed after one heart-shaking discussion: 'We cannot make war as we ought; we can only make it as we can.

Thus, both in Europe and in Asia, conditions were swiftly created by the victorious Allies which, in the name of peace, cleared the way for the renewal of war.

Cabinet Minister: "The trouble with the Germans is that they are like a lot of sheep; they will follow anybody."] Oh, it is far worse than that, they are carnivorous sheep!

The more morally impossible a military operation, the better chance it will have of success if it is physically practicable. Surprise—that sovereign talisman of War—springs from the doing of the exact thing the enemy is certain will never be tried.

In the German view, which Herr Hitler shares, a peaceful Germany and Austria were fallen upon in 1914 by a gang of wicked designing nations, headed by Belgium and Serbia, and would have defended herself successfully if only she had not been stabbed in the back by the Jews. Against such opinions it is vain to argue.

To fight in defence of his native land is the first duty of the citizen. But to fight in defence of some one else's native land is a different proposition. It may also be a sacred obligation, but it involves a higher conception.

No operation of a war is more critical than a night-march.

Power, for the sake of lording it over fellow-creatures or adding to personal pomp, is rightly judged base. But power in a national crisis, when a man believes he knows what orders should be given, is a blessing.

Nemesis personifies "the Goddess of Retribution, who brings down all immoderate good fortune, checks the presumption that attends it, …and is the punisher of extraordinary crimes".36

The determination of the greatest military Power on the Continent to become at the same time at least the second naval Power was an event of first magnitude in world affairs.

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In the autumn of 1942, at the peak of the struggle for Guadalcanal, only three American aircraft-carriers were afloat; a year later there were fifty; by the end of the war there were more than a hundred.

Cada serie de circunstancias crea otras nuevas.

Bueno, por lo menos siempre habrá una cosa que no le podrán negar: la flota estaba preparada»

The crimes of the vanquished find their background and their explanation, though not, of course, their pardon, in the follies of the victors. Without these follies crime would have found neither temptation nor opportunity.

the Battle of Alamein, called Desert Victory.