Winston Churchill

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

You don’t win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a b*tch die for his.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty… break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

War is not a matter for the professional pacifist or militarist. It is for the unprofessional people. They finance and fight it, they bear its losses. Therefore, they should have the deciding voice concerning it. To do this, they require all the information upon which decisions are made. They should know in a difference, whether it is soluble by rational intelligence, or inevitable by force. Not once in a thousand instances would our people (this may not be true of all peoples, however) approve an offensive war. Never would they be lax in defensive action. For this is their country. However, most of their enemies are within it.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.