Quotes from Winston S. Churchill

The peoples, transported by their sufferings and by the mass teachings with which they had been inspired, stood around in scores of millions to demand that retribution should be exacted to the full. Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred blood-soaked battlefields.

Russian maxim, "You may always walk with the Devil till you get to the end of the bridge.

the war in the West resolved itself into two periods of supreme battle, divided from each other by a three-years' siege.

In 1186 Saladin in his turn proclaimed a Holy War. He promised his warlike hordes booty and adventure in this world and bliss eternal in the next, and advanced upon Jerusalem.

But injustice, arrogance, displayed in the hour of triumph, will never be forgotten or forgiven.

No one expected a renewal of war in the lifetime of the generation that had known its horror and its squalors.

Now, at the price of their life-blood, the long oppression had been rolled away. Surely here at last was peace and safety. With one passionate spasm the French people cried, "Never again!" But the future was heavy with foreboding.

a letter of the great Duke of Marlborough, in which he said: "To remove a General in the midst of a campaign—that is the mortal stroke.

During the period of choice, a man must fight for his opinion with the utmost tenacity. But once the choice has been made, then the business must be carried through in loyal comradeship.

The Polish attitude was, "With the Germans we risk losing our liberty; with the Russians our soul".

No people respond more spontaneously to fair play. If you treat Americans well they always want to treat you better.

It was our duty to take the fullest advantage of our superiority, and to fight only under conditions which gave solid assurances of victory.

I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust.

Such was the picture presented to the public, and such was the mood which ruled. It was not however entirely in accordance with the facts; and facts, especially in war, are stubborn things.

Sin embargo, ninguna de estas alternativas, tomadas por separado, eran ciertas; aunque, tomadas en conjunto, hubiese cierto punto de verdad en ambas.

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion

Burke's dictum, "If I cannot have reform without injustice, I will not have reform.

Duty and prudence alike command, first, that the germ-centres of hatred and revenge should be constantly and vigilantly surveyed and treated in good time, and, secondly, that an adequate organisation should be set up to make sure that the pestilence can be controlled at its earliest beginnings before it spreads and rages throughout the entire earth.

If you are going through hell, keep going

I'm bored with it all. - Last Words

I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.