Winston Churchill Quotes About Duty

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  All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Hope, Freedom

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

• Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

  Winston Churchill

  War, Moving, Fall

  Hansard 18 June 1940, col. 60

• The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Moving, Learning

  A radio speech broadcast from London to America on receiving the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws of the University of Rochester, June 16, 1941.

• Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Years

  Speech in House of Commons, 18 June 1940

• Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  The Malakand Field Force ch. 10 (1898)

• 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

• All the great things are simple.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Simplicity, Duty And Honor

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

• There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

  Winston Churchill

  Space, Duty, Obligation

• There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Safety, Trying

  Sir Winston Churchill (1942). “The Unrelenting Struggle: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill ...”

• So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Thinking, Long

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

• There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Believe, Winning

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

• One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be the cause of the British Empire in India ... Our fight is hard. It will also be long ... But win or lose, we must do our duty. If the British people are to lose their Indian Empire, they shall do so with their eyes open.

  Winston Churchill

  Party, Eye, Fighting

• The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

  Winston Churchill

  Character, Firsts, Duty

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

• 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

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