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You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler

You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest.

Winston Churchill
War, Hate, Hands

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

Winston Churchill
Powerful, Fear, Home
"The Defence of Freedom and Peace (The Lights are Going Out)", radio broadcast to the United States and to London, October 16, 1938.

You must look at facts, because they look at you.

Winston Churchill
Philosophy, Facts, Looks

If you travel the earth, you will find it is largely divided into two classes of people-people who say 'I wonder why such and such is not done" and people who say "Now who is going to prevent me from doing that thing?"

Winston Churchill
Class, Two, People

My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.

Winston Churchill
Simple, Taste

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

Winston Churchill
Stories, England, Guides
Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

Winston Churchill
Trying, Rewards, Gains
Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Winston Churchill
Peace, Military, War
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

Science should be on tap, not on top.

Winston Churchill
Witty, Science, Technology

Expert knowledge is limited knowledge

Winston Churchill
Experts, Limited Knowledge
Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

Winston Churchill
Produce, Balkans

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

Winston Churchill
Peace, War, Victory And Defeat
"Marlborough; his life and times".

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

Winston Churchill
Morning, Nice, White

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

Winston Churchill
Happiness, Being Happy, Real
Winston Churchill (2009). “Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

Winston Churchill
War, Useless, Planning

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

Winston Churchill
Procrastination, Entering, Delay
Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.126, A&C Black

Victory is only wrested by running risks.

Winston Churchill
Running, Risk, Victory

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

Winston Churchill
Trials, World, Tests
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.

Winston Churchill
Force, Deprived

I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man. But this interlude of school makes a somber grey patch upon the chart of my journey. It was a unending spell of worries that did not then seem petty, and of toil uncheered by fruition; a time of discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony.

Winston Churchill
Children, School, Journey
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Winston Churchill
Sweet, Fighting, Intelligent
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

Winston Churchill
Children, Taken, Eye
Speech in House of Commons, 28 Jan. 1931

Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India.

Winston Churchill
Sweet, Silly, Heart

This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.

Winston Churchill
Strong, War, Army

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them

Winston Churchill
Military, Fighting, Allies
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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