Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference 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
I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on… — 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
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine… — 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 could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order 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
Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. — 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 Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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 Image
