Winston Churchill1874–1965The quotations of
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer
1874–1965
90 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Politics and Clever Jabs.
- The Second World War, Volume I: The Gathering Storm (1948) Chapter 19 (Prague, Albania, and the Polish Guarantee).
- From a conversational exchange with Harold Begbie, as cited in Master Workers, Begbie, Methuen & Co. (1906), p. 177.
‘In war-time,’ I said, ‘truth is so precious she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’
Discussion of Operation Overlord with Stalin at the Teheran Conference (November 30, 1943); in The Second World War, Volume V: Closing the Ring (1952), Chapter 21 (Teheran: The Crux), p. 338If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898), Chapter X- Pall Mall Gazette (1924) on HG Wells’ suggestion of an atomic bomb, in “BBC Article”
- Remarks at a White House luncheon (26 June 1954)
- The Second World War, Volume I: The Gathering Storm (1948).
- Speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri (5 March 1946)
- Remark to John Colville (21 June 1941), as quoted in Andrew Nagorski, The Greatest Battle (2007), pp. 150–151
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Speech in the House of Commons (20 August 1940)How many wars have been averted by patience and persisting good will!
The Second World War, Volume I: The Gathering Storm (1948) Chapter 17 (The Tragedy of Munich), p .287- Speech in the House of Commons, June 18, 1940 “War Situation”.
