Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnaminity In Peace: Good Will. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This is a war of the unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“It is a tale that is told, from which we may draw the knowledge and comprehension needed for the future. The disproportion… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your… — Winston Churchill Copy Share
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one… — Winston Churchill Copy Share
People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time… — Winston Churchill Copy Share
To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action. — Winston Churchill Copy Share