Mankind Quotes by Winston Churchill

Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

— Winston Churchill

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

— Winston Churchill

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of…

— Winston Churchill

Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.

— Winston Churchill

Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.

— Winston Churchill

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

— Winston Churchill

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

— Winston Churchill

Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even…

— Winston Churchill

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services…

— Winston Churchill

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind…

— Winston Churchill

Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together…

— Winston Churchill

Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny…

— Winston Churchill

We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we…

— Winston Churchill

... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for…

— Winston Churchill

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together…

— Winston Churchill

The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material…

— Winston Churchill

This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war…

— Winston Churchill

“Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into…

— Winston Churchill