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Military Quotes by Winston Churchill
- Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people…
- Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has…
- I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
- I never worry about action, but only inaction.
- Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
- Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
- I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
- Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
- For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept…
- Air power may either end war or end civilization.
- Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.
- A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great…
- I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.
- I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.
- Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.
- In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable
- I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.
- We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills.…
- Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government
- No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.
- Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle…
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