Winston Churchill Quotes

“A group of pagan ruffians and pirates had gained possession of an effective military and naval machine, but they faced a mass of formidable veterans whom they had to feed and manage, and for whom they must provide killings. Such men make plans,...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

topic:war

“One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'the Unnecessary War'.”

― Winston Churchill, The Second World War

topic:war

“Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass-conflicts of which till then there was record.”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

topic:war

“Without any coherent national organisation to repel from the land on which they had settled the ever-unknowable descents from the seas, the Saxons, now for four centuries entitled to be deemed the owners of the soil, very nearly succumbed...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

topic:war

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

― Winston Churchill, The Second World War

topic:war

“At this point the march of invention brought a new factor upon the scene. Iron was dug and forged. Men armed with iron entered Britain from the Continent and killed the men of bronze. At this point we can plainly recognise across the vanished...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

topic:war

“Civilisation had been restored to the Island. But now the political fabric which nurtured it was about to be overthrown. Hitherto strong men armed had kept the house. Now a child, a weakling, a vacillator, a faithless, feckless creature,...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“We see the crude and corrupt beginnings of a higher civilisation blotted out by the ferocious uprising of the native tribes. Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

topic:killing right

“In place of the King’s arbitrary despotism they proposed, not the withering anarchy of feudal separatism, but a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

topic:democracy

“It is vain to recount further the catalogue of miseries. In earlier ages such horrors remain unknown because unrecorded. Just enough flickering light plays upon this infernal scene to give us the sense of its utter desolation and hopeless...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

topic:misery cruelty

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