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The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in

The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.

Winston Churchill
Powerful, War, Tired

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

Winston Churchill
War, World, Sanity
Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

Winston Churchill
Summer, War, Ocean
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Winston Churchill
War, Men, Japan
"The Second World War, Volume III : The Grand Alliance". Book by Winston S. Churchill, chapter 32, 1950.

I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.

Winston Churchill
Sorry, War, Heart
"Mr. Churchill's Reply". The Times, November 7, 1938.

Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.

Winston Churchill
War, Dark, Thinking
Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.

Winston Churchill
War, Men, Wife
"Churchill by Himself". Book by Richard Langworth, p. 511, 2008.

I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

Winston Churchill
Strong, War, Honest Woman
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Winston Churchill
War, Iron, History
Address at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., 5 Mar. 1946.

The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill
Gratitude, War, Home
Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

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

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

Winston Churchill
War, Years, Mind

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Winston Churchill
War, Patriotic, Alternatives
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

Winston Churchill
War, Party, Technique
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

Winston Churchill
War, Cat, Land
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

Old men make war, young men fight and die

Winston Churchill
War, Fighting, Men

In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.

Winston Churchill
War, Fighting, Russia
"War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943".

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

Winston Churchill
Horse, War, Science
Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards the German chancellor prior to the outbreak of war: We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation. . . .

Winston Churchill
War, Men, Civilization

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

Winston Churchill
Military, War, May
Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

Winston Churchill
War, Military, Expression

Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

Winston Churchill
War, Men, Long
Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Winston Churchill
War, Winning, Political
1930 My Early Life.

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