Winston Churchill Quotes About Conflict

• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

  Winston Churchill

  Memorial Day, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

• If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

  Winston Churchill

  Team, Two, People

• May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

  Winston Churchill

  Pain, Giving, Optimism

• True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

  Winston Churchill

  Decision, Genius, Information

• Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Men, Battle

  Arm Yourselves and Be Ye Men of Valour, BBC Radio Broadcast 19 May 1940

• The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Victory And Defeat, Problem

  Winston Churchill, Colin Coote, Ryōichi Amano (1965). “チャ-チル名言集”

• It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

  Winston Churchill

  Brother, Children, War

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

• 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

• Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.

  Winston Churchill

  Islands, Years, Dying

  Winston Churchill (1995). “Churchill's History of the English-speaking Peoples”, Barnes & Noble

• 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

• 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”

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