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What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

Winston Churchill
War, Dark, Greatest Victory
Hansard 13 May 1940, col. 1502

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

Winston Churchill
War, Struggle, Fog
Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.

Winston Churchill
War, Shoes, Snow
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.547, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

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

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.

Winston Churchill
War, Winning, Should Have
Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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

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.

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"”

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”

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

Winston Churchill
Running, War, Adversity
Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.

Winston Churchill
War, Dark, Blessing

There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."

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

There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

Winston Churchill
Jobs, War, Men

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

Winston Churchill
War, Order, World

How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.

Winston Churchill
War, Struggle, Order

God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

Winston Churchill
War, World, Months

This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.

Winston Churchill
War, Home, America

It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.

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

...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

Winston Churchill
War, Water, Buckets
Winston Churchill (2005). “The World Crisis, 1911-1918”, p.776, Simon and Schuster

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Winston Churchill
War, Skating, Giants
Winston S. Churchill (2010). “Triumph and Tragedy: The Second World War”, p.430, RosettaBooks

The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.

Winston Churchill
War, Gun, Fire
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.528, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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