Winston Churchill

Haven’t you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

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

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

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

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

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

World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.

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

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

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.

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

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

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.