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War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

Winston Churchill
War, Used, Magnificent
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success.

Winston Churchill
War, Men, Victory
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”

No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.

Winston Churchill
War, World, Malta
Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.295, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

Winston Churchill
War, World, May
Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940”, William Heinemann

If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.

Winston Churchill
Giving Up, War, Jam

We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.

Winston Churchill
War, Mistake, Effort

Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.

Winston Churchill
War, World, Sides

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

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

My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

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

The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.

Winston Churchill
War, Agency, Ruthlessness
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.199, Da Capo Press

In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.

Winston Churchill
War, Lying, Body

More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

Winston Churchill
War, Facts, Taxation
Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.84, A&C Black

...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

Winston Churchill
War, Stress, Ukraine

England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.

Winston Churchill
War, Choices, England

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

Winston Churchill
War, Mean, Winning
Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.405, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.

Winston Churchill
War, Winning, Years
Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The Gathering storm”

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

Winston Churchill
War, World, Boat
Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.529, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was heading for Ceylon and the naval base there. The capture of Ceylon, the consequent control of the Indian Ocean, and the possibility at the same time of a German conquest of Egypt would have closed the ring and the future would have been black.

Winston Churchill
War, Ocean, Egypt
"Battle for the Skies". Book by Michael Paterson, David & Charles, 2004.

In war, truth is often the first casualty.

Winston Churchill
War, Interesting, Firsts

Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.

Winston Churchill
War, Judging, Political
"Boothby: Recollections of a Rebel". Book by Robert Boothby, pp. 183-84, October, 1978.

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