Winston Churchill Quotes About Mankind

• Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Scotland, Greek, Earth

• 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”

• Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Blessed, Eight

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.375, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Firsts, Characteristics

  "The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill".

• The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Progress, Milestone

  Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

• It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Grief, Watches, Empires

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

• The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short.
  Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.

  Winston Churchill

  Dark, Science, Blessing

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

• I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Work, Addresses

• Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Together, Majority

  Winston Churchill (1966). “Churchill in His Own Words: Years of Greatness, Memorable Speeches of the Man of the Century”

• 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

• This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, War, Army

• Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Learning, Progress Of Society

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

• Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Sacrifice, Sorrow, Depth

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.239, A&C Black

• Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall.

  Winston Churchill

  Stars, Night, Race

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

• Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

  Winston Churchill

  History, Lessons, Mankind

  Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

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