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Force Quotes by Winston Churchill
- The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
- May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange…
- Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.
- Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force…
- Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them…
- The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery…
- We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation…
- Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark…
- Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
- ...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked…
- The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide…
- Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only…
- No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
- The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese…
- Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.
- I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing…
- Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So…
- Never give in.. never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good…
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