Winston Churchill Military Quotes

• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

  Winston Churchill

  Determination, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

• I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Marine, World
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  Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Horse, Business

  The Economist, July 6, 2012.

• It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Military, Giving

• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

• Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Encouraging, Courage

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

• 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

• I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Drinking, Taken

  In Quentin Reynolds By Quentin Reynolds (1964) ch. 11

• Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

  Winston Churchill

  Dream, Military, Reality

• Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Fate, Winning

• Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Military, Character

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

• Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Military, Reading

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

• 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

• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Book, Teaching

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

• One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Military, War

  Second World War (1948) vol. 1, p. viii

• Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Jobs, Military

  Radio broadcast, 9 Feb. 1941

• 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

• Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Military, War

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

• I never worry about action, but only inaction.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Worry, Action

• Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Battle, Demand

  "Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words".

• 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

• They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Lasts, Crocodiles

• The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Air, Force

  Winston S. Churchill (2010). “The Gathering Storm: The Second World War”, p.562, RosettaBooks

• Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Air, Independence

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Arms and the Covenant”, p.54, RosettaBooks

• No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Military, Law

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

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