Winston Churchill Quotes About Fighting

• If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I like a man who grins when he fights.

  Winston Churchill

  Sweet, Fighting, Intelligent

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Strength, Beach

  Hansard 4 June 1940, col. 796

• Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

  Winston Churchill

  Hero, Fighting, Greek

• Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India.

  Winston Churchill

  Sweet, Silly, Heart

• You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Fighting, Odds Against You

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Wine, Fighting

• There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Fighting, Allies

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

• We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make and fight our way. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere - and we shall persevere - we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Fighting, Dark

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

• No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Fighting, Political

  Winston Churchill (1947). “Great Contemporaries”

• I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Humorous, Fighting

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

• And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

  Winston Churchill

  Fighting, Men, Law

  Sir Winston Churchill, Timothy Baker (1968). “The island race”

• Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

  Winston Churchill

  Fighting, Battle, Trying

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

• Old men make war, young men fight and die

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fighting, Men

• When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fighting, Three

  Speech to joint session of Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, 30 Dec. 1941

• In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fighting, Russia

  "War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943".

• 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"”

• We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.

  Winston Churchill

  Memorial Day, Beach, Military

  Winston Churchill's speech to the House of Commons, history.hanover.edu. June 4, 1940.

• 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

• ... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

  Winston Churchill

  Fighting, Battle, Trying

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

• I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Fighting, Conquer

• We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.

  Winston Churchill

  Fighting, Fields, Surrender

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