War Quotes by Winston Churchill

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

— Winston Churchill

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

— Winston Churchill

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

— Winston Churchill

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?

— Winston Churchill

“War will find us whether we are ready or not.”

— Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

— Winston Churchill

War is a catalouge of blunders.

— Winston Churchill

In war, truth is often the first casualty.

— Winston Churchill

...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

— Winston Churchill

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

— Winston Churchill

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much…

— Winston Churchill

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

— Winston Churchill

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

— Winston Churchill

The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.

— Winston Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

— Winston Churchill

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

— 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

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

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

I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering…

— 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

My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been…

— Winston Churchill

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie…

— Winston Churchill

Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human…

— Winston Churchill

Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for…

— Winston Churchill

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to…

— Winston Churchill

. . . when I look round to see how we can win the war I see that there is only one…

— Winston Churchill

I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil,…

— Winston Churchill

I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of…

— Winston Churchill

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a…

— 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

I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us…

— Winston Churchill

You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our…

— Winston Churchill

I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but…

— Winston Churchill

May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger…

— Winston Churchill

“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since,…

— Winston Churchill

The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and…

— Winston Churchill