Winston Churchill

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

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don’t want it; we won

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

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.

That’s what an army is – a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

No one ever wins a war.

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.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.