Quotes from Winston S. Churchill

When we have degenerated, as we must eventually degenerate, when we have lost our intrinsic superiority…our morals will be gone, but our Maxims will remain.

War is a hard school, but the British, once compelled to go there, are attentive pupils.

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' DR. JOHNSON

During this period I usually managed to take two afternoons a week in the areas under attack in Kent or Sussex in order to see for myself what was happening.

Nothing…is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

The British people do not, as is sometimes thought, go to war for calculation, but for sentiment

There is an age-long argument about ships versus forts. Nelson said that a six-gun battery could fight a 100-gun ship-of-the-line. Mr. Balfour, in the Dardanelles inquiry, said in 1916: "If the ship has guns which can hit the fort at ranges where the fort cannot reply, the duel is not necessarily so unequal.

the threat of adversity is a necessary factor in stimulating self-reliance.

in our human state there is no separation between public deeds and personal psychology, and the story of the one would be incomplete without the other.

La sorpresa, la rapidez y la intensidad del ataque están supeditadas al estado de preparación del enemigo en un momento dado. Todo movimiento emprendido por un bando puede ser anulado por un movimiento contrario del adversario. En una operación de esta clase, fuerza y tiempo vienen a ser magnitudes de valor equivalente y que pueden en gran medida expresarse en las mismas unidades: una semana perdida viene a equivaler a una división

Few indeed are the instances in history of a river-line athwart the advance of a superior army proving an effective defence

Even in famine the seed corn must be preserved.

If you are a great general,' said Pompaedius Silo to Marius, 'come down and fight.' 'If you are a great general,' was the famous answer, 'make me fight against my will.

anti-Semitism may be a good starter, but it is a bad sticker.

Their national psychology is such that the bigger the Idea the more wholeheartedly and obstinately do they throw themselves into making it a success. It is an admirable characteristic provided the Idea is good.

Môr o gân yw Cymru i gyd. [All Wales is a sea of song.]

Two things stop the offensive movements of armies: (a) Bullets and fragments of shell which destroy the motive power of men, and (b) The confusion of the conflict.

In Norman days far more definitely than in Saxon the governing class is a landowning class.

Uganda is defended by its insects.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature. I see that a speaker at the weekend said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

Now mark me well—it is provided in the essence of things, that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.' —WALT WHITMAN, The Open Road.

The strongest element behind the American effort had been the small farmers from the inland frontier districts. It was they who had supplied the men for the Army and who had in most of the states refashioned the several constitutions on democratic lines.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

los comunistas, luchando contra los nazis en las calles y contra el gobierno por medio de huelgas, contribuyeron a hacerle imposible gobernar.