Winston Churchill Quotes About Victory

• 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

• As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

  Winston Churchill

  Winning, Long, Victory

• Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

  Winston Churchill

  Fear, War, Greatest Victory

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

• History is written by the victors.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Humorous, Winning

  Edmund Murray, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1995). “Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies 1992-1993”, Churchill Center

• In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Victory And Defeat

  "Marlborough; his life and times".

• You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

  Winston Churchill

  Change, Giving Up, War

  Hansard 13 May 1940, col. 1502

• 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

• I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Heart, New Experiences

  Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

• 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

• Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

  Winston Churchill

  Victory, Politics, Path

• No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

  Winston Churchill

  Victory, Purpose, Compromise

  Winston Churchill's remarks at a joint Anglo-American rally in Westminster (July 4, 1918), as quoted in "War Aims & Peace Ideals: Selections in Prose & Verse, Illustrating the Aspirations of the Modern World" edited by Tucker Brooke and Henry Seidel Canby (p. 138), 1919.

• Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Twilight, Victory

• Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

  Winston Churchill

  Beautiful, Flower, Victory

• 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”

• Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

  Winston Churchill

  Victory, Finals, Defeat

• Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Victory, Retreat

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

• The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

  Winston Churchill

  Fate, Victory, Unconquerable Will

  Message to people of Europe launching V for Victory propaganda campaign, 20 July 1941

• We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

  Winston Churchill

  War, Victory, World

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

  Winston Churchill

  Victory, Defeat, Dear

  Winston Churchill (2005). “The World Crisis, 1911-1918”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

• Victory is only wrested by running risks.

  Winston Churchill

  Running, Risk, Victory

• The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, War, Mean

• The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Mean, Winning

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.405, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

  Winston Churchill

  Victory, Defeat

  The Second World War vol. 4 (1951)

• You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

  Winston Churchill

  Victory, Aim, Asks

• Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.

  Winston Churchill

  Rely Upon, Long, Honor

  Winston Churchill's remarks at the Guildhall after the first British naval victory of World War I (September 4, 1914), as quoted in Martin Gilbert "Churchill: A Life" (p. 279), October 15, 1992.

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