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Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

Winston Churchill
Time, War, Night
The Second World War vol. 1 (1948)

I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Winston Churchill
War, Heart, Race
Speech at Westminster Hall, London, 30 Nov. 1954

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.

Winston Churchill
War, Leader, Feelings
Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

Winston Churchill
Bottles, Sparkle, Champagne

What a fool I have been!

Winston Churchill
Fool, Last Words, Has Beens

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are?

Winston Churchill
Kindness, Thinking, People

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

Winston Churchill
Successful, Political, Politics
Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.583, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

Winston Churchill
Fun, Political, Politics
My Early Life (1930) ch. 2

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

Winston Churchill
Political, World, Politics

I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

Winston Churchill
Eight, Years, Arrogance

Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

Winston Churchill
Country, Memorable, Dark
Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.

Winston Churchill
War, Fall, Past
Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

When I look round to see how we can win the war, I see that there is only one sure path . . . and that is absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland.

Winston Churchill
Country, War, Mean
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

Winston Churchill
Military, Communication, Air

The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement.

Winston Churchill
War, Jealous, Fighting
Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

Winston Churchill
Safety, Cost, Aviation

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill
Coaching, Definitions, Enthusiasm

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

Winston Churchill
Victory, Aim, Asks

A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.

Winston Churchill
Opportunity, Problem, Pessimist

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

Winston Churchill
Future, Past, Land
Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.

Winston Churchill
Life, Men, Hunting

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Winston Churchill
Life, Wise, Drama
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.

Winston Churchill
Time, Bystanders, Hands
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

Winston Churchill
War, Feelings, Atmosphere
Sir Winston Churchill (1942). “The Unrelenting Struggle: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill ...”

Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.

Winston Churchill
War, Believe, Years
Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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