Winston Churchill Quotes About War Of The Worlds

• 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”

• Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.

  Winston Churchill

  Good Night, Morning, War

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.363, Da Capo Press

• The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.

  Winston Churchill

  Christian, War, Civilization

  "Churchill: The blood sweat and tears behind his finest hour speech" by Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.

• At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Sanity

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

• The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.

  Winston Churchill

  Powerful, War, Tired

• The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Curves, Achievement

• Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Military, Expression

• Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World Government, Law

• 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

• The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

  Winston Churchill

  Gratitude, War, Home

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

• 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

• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Lying, Europe

  "The Sinews of Peace". Winston Churchill's speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, www.nato.int. March 5, 1946.

• Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, War, Night

  The Second World War vol. 1 (1948)

• 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".

• Without ships, we cannot live.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Ships

• We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Taken, Decision

  Sir Winston Churchill (1950). “The Grand Alliance”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Shoes, Snow

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.547, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Taken, Army

• Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Character, Science

• God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Months

• We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

  Winston Churchill

  Summer, War, Ocean

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

• It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fiction, World

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

• I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, War, Honest Woman

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

• There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

  Winston Churchill

  Jobs, War, Men

• 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

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