War Quotes by Winston Churchill · Page 3

Air power may either end war or end civilization.

— Winston Churchill

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

— Winston Churchill

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

— Winston Churchill

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

— Winston Churchill

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

— Winston Churchill

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

— Winston Churchill

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

— Winston Churchill

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

— Winston Churchill

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

— Winston Churchill

There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little…

— Winston Churchill

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and…

— Winston Churchill

Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost…

— Winston Churchill

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to…

— Winston Churchill

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to…

— Winston Churchill

Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people,…

— Winston Churchill

If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at…

— Winston Churchill

What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

— Winston Churchill

This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while…

— Winston Churchill

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is…

— Winston Churchill

The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable…

— Winston Churchill

The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the…

— Winston Churchill

I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies… Japan…

— Winston Churchill

The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was…

— Winston Churchill

I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory…

— Winston Churchill

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

The government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war too.

— Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

— Winston Churchill

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

— Winston Churchill

In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity

— Winston Churchill

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

— Winston Churchill

“Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.”

— Winston Churchill

England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.

— Winston Churchill

No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.

— Winston Churchill

“Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.”

— Winston Churchill

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

— Winston Churchill

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

— Winston Churchill

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the…

— Winston Churchill

The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes…

— Winston Churchill

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety…

— Winston Churchill

The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian…

— Winston Churchill