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Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an

Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.

Winston Churchill
War, Character, Science

The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.

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

Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.

Winston Churchill
War, Taken, Army

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

Winston Churchill
War, Taken, Decision
Sir Winston Churchill (1950). “The Grand Alliance”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

Winston Churchill
War

You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

Winston Churchill
War, Nice, Being Nice

Without ships, we cannot live.

Winston Churchill
War, World, Ships

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

Winston Churchill
War, Victory, World
Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?

Winston Churchill
War, Skulls, Laughing
Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

Winston Churchill
War, Important, World
Winston Churchill (2005). “The World Crisis, 1911-1918”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill
Wise, War, Winning
Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.

Winston Churchill
Fashion, War, Fate

...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.

Winston Churchill
War, Cold, Century
The Sinews of Peace, delivered 5 March 1946 Westminster College, Fulton Missouri

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Winston Churchill
War, Poison, Use

There is no working middle course in wartime.

Winston Churchill
War, Conflict, Middle
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.364, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.

Winston Churchill
War, Men, Race
Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

Winston Churchill
War, Winning, America

The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

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

Air power may either end war or end civilization.

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

I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.

Winston Churchill
War, Believe, Government

I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same.

Winston Churchill
War, Night, Race

This is a war of the unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age.

Winston Churchill
War, Dark, Age
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.350, Da Capo Press

We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Winston Churchill
Strong, War, Winning

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
War, Records, Conflict
Winston Churchill (1958). “A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The Great democracies”

This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors

Winston Churchill
War, Ambition, Names
Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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