Quotes from Winston S. Churchill

I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.

The most damnable thing in the world is a servile copyist!

Old words, he said, were the best of all, and he indulged in them: correctitude, palimpsest, parlementaire, guttersnipe, purblind.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism

Le cœur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connait pas.' It

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice! Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Salutations and congratulations upon the victory of Bardia! If I may debase a golden phrase, "never has so much been surrendered by so many to so few". The

Solo el sombrío crepúsculo de la lucha adversa trae la hora de las soluciones desesperadas. Lo positivo posible se rechaza cuando todo podía ganarse, mientras lo negativo peligroso se adopta cuando no queda otra posibilidad que la huida, y la energía y resolución que podían haber asegurado la victoria se malgastan en meros procesos de fuga.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field

He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.

It marked in fact the turning of "the Hinge of Fate". It may almost be said, "Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

But no parties could live under such labels as Petitioners and Abhorrers. Instead of naming themselves they named each other. The term "Whig" had described a sour, bigoted, canting, money-grubbing Scots Presbyterian. Irish Papist bandits ravaging estates and manor-houses had been called "Tories." Neither

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet.

I must confess to some sentiment about old Ireland, in spite of the ugly mask she tries to wear.

Since any armed movement against an established Government can be justified only by success, strength is an important revolutionary virtue.

The fighting man has a grim sense of justice, which it is dangerous to affront.

It proved conclusively the great accuracy of naval fire, provided good observation could be obtained.

while here and there the bright flashes of the guns or the occasional whistle of a random bullet accompanied our path, the conviction came into my mind with absolute assurance that the simple soldiers and their regimental officers, armed with their cause, would by their virtues in the end retrieve the mistakes and ignorances of Staffs and Cabinets, of Admirals, Generals and politicians—

The uncontrollable momentum of war, the inadequacy of unity and leadership among Allies, the tides of national passion, nearly always force improvident action upon Governments or Commanders

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The Greeks rival the Jews in being the most politically-minded race in the world..…No two cities have counted more with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem.

It was not, however, knowledge that was lacking, but the collective will-power to turn it to account.

I had a feeling once about Mathematics, that I saw it all—Depth beyond depth was revealed to me—the Byss and the Abyss.