Winston Churchill Quotes about Peace

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If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Winston Churchill

Peace, Freedom, War

Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill

Peace, Giving Up, War

Remarks at White House luncheon,Washington, D.C., 26 June 1954

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Churchill

Time, Peace, Truth

Discussion of Operation Overlord with Stalin at the Teheran Conference November 30, 1943; in Winston Churchill: The Second World War, Volume V : Closing the Ring (1952), Chapter 21 (Teheran: The Crux), p. 338.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Winston Churchill

Peace, Race, Wish

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

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

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".

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Winston Churchill

Smile, Peace, War

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise 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, War, Yield

"My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

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

Peace, Military, War

Second World War (1948) vol. 1, p. viii

Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.

Winston Churchill

Peace, Fear, Heart

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

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.

Winston Churchill

Peace, War, Believe

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Winston Churchill

Peace, War, Patriotic

Winston Churchill (2013). “The Second World War”, p.565, A&C Black

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

Winston Churchill

Peace, Safety, Justice

'Masters of Our Fate' Speech to Joint Session of the U.S. Congress, delivered 26 December 1941, Washington, D.C.

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

Winston Churchill

Peace, Together, Majority

Winston Churchill (1966). “Churchill in His Own Words: Years of Greatness, Memorable Speeches of the Man of the Century”