Winston Churchill

Quotes

• “If Great Britain lost her Empire and India and her share in world trade and her sea power, she would be like a vast whal...”
• “I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught the Nazi war machine, with its clanking, heel-clicking, dandified Pru...”
• “How is an ordinary citizen or subject of the King to stand up against this formidable machine, which, once it is in powe...”
• “I have never taken the view which seems to give so much pleasure to morbid and misanthropic minds, a view which they hav...”
• “A misquotation by Ronald Reagan in a 9 March 1982 speech, reported in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never S...”
• “The choice is between two ways of life: between individual liberty and State domination; between concentrations of owner...”
• “While vague about the hereafter, Churchill always held that "man is spirit," and believed in a kind of spiritual connect...”
• “Right away Churchill jumped up and said: Our entire tragedy is that we have a weak government. The Baldwins are idiots, ...”
• “In the main, the theme is emerging of the growth of freedom and law, of the rights of the individual, of the subordinati...”
• “What is the dominant fact of the situation? Germany is arming...Germany is arming particularly in the air. ... it seems ...”
• “It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only s...”
• “Without any coherent national organisation to repel from the land on which they had settled the ever-unknowable descents...”
• “Is this the end? Is it to be merely a chapter in a cruel and senseless story? Will a new generation in their turn be imm...”
• “I had a feeling once about Mathematics, that I saw it all-Depth beyond depth was revealed to me-the Byss and the Abyss. ...”
• “This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. The...”
• “The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward. This is not a philosophical or political argument-any oc...”
• “See also: In a letter, on page 1184 of the above work: Concerning "Operation Compass," the first major British offensive...”
• “I was very glad when Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the late war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but ...”
• “I look forward to the universal establishment of minimum standards of life and labour, and their progressive elevation a...”
• “The follies of Socialism are inexhaustible... Even among themselves they have twenty discordant factions who hate one an...”
• “Are we going to make a supreme additional effort to remain a great Power, or are we going to slide away into what seem t...”
• “War not only has its own weapons, it has its own ethic, its own standard of right and wrong... Do whatever is necessary ...”
• “I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks a...”
• “Governments create nothing and have nothing to give but what they have first taken away - you may put money in the pocke...”
• “I certainly do not take the view that a war between England and Germany is inevitable. I fear very gravely however unles...”
• “God bless you all. This is your victory! [crowd: "No-it is yours."] It is the victory of the cause of freedom in every l...”
• “Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your vi...”
• “The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even po...”
• “We are not a young people with an innocent record and a scanty inheritance... We have engrossed to ourselves an altogeth...”
• “We must recognise that we have a great treasure to guard; that the inheritance in our possession represents the prolonge...”
• “We have surmounted all the perils and endured all the agonies of the past. We shall provide against and thus prevail ove...”
• “It remains for me to wish my colleagues all good fortune in the difficult, but hopeful, situation which you have to face...”
• “The aid which we can give to those Russian armies which are now engaged in fighting against the foul baboonery of Bolshe...”
• “[T]hey were gathered together on that platform with one object. They wanted to stop this war of which they had heard so ...”
• “Variants: Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conserva...”
• “In King's view, there could have been no finer comrades-in-arms for the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff than the...”
• “There is no difficulty in vindicating the principle of a hereditary monarchy. The experience of every country and of all...”
• “His violent disagreement with Neville Chamberlain did not spring solely from thwarted ambition or personal dislike. Such...”
• “Ending of the Speech to a joint session of the United States Congress, Washington, D.C. (26 December 1941); reported in ...”
• “Among a stream of visitors to the 9th Division in England, while it was preparing for D-Day in the early months of 1944,...”
• “Goodnight then: sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave...”
• “No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experi...”
• “Although trade is important, there are other and stronger bonds of Empire, and since the Conference of 1926 nothing but ...”
• “I know I speak for all Americans, your fellow citizens, in extending warmest congratulations and affectionate best wishe...”
• “The quote is presumably apocryphal due to earliest attestations being too different, less famous personages (easily repl...”
• “There is nothing economically unsound in increasing temporarily and artificially the demand for labour during a period o...”
• “He looked invincible, which he is. Tough, bulldogged, piercing. He made his way through the smoke, through the City work...”
• “Italy has shown that there is a way of fighting the subversive forces which can rally the masses of the people, properly...”
• “The great aristocrat, the beloved leader, the profound historian, the gifted painter, the superb politician, the lord of...”
• “We live in a country where the people own the Government and not in a country where the Government owns the people. Thou...”