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How many wars have been averted by patience and persisting good will!
Winston Churchill1874–1965The Second World War, Volume I: The Gathering Storm (1948) Chapter 17 (The Tragedy of Munich), p .287
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons, June 18, 1940 “War Situation”.
- Courage
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech to the Cabinet (28 May 1940), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939–1941 (1983), p. 420
- Courage
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons (4 June 1940)
- Courage
- Patriotism
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech at the Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London (10 November 1942)
- Hope
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is 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 Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons on becoming Prime Minister (13 May 1940)
- Courage
- Motivation & Goals
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Cicero107–43 BC
Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
Tom Clancy1947–2013Schafer interview (1995)
- Knowledge
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
Eldridge Cleaver1935–1998Soul on Ice (1968)
I don’t care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.
Bill Clintonborn 1946At a Labour Party conference in the UK, quoted in The Independent. “Clinton urges caution over Iraq as Bush is granted war powers” (3 October 2002)
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Kubla Khan (1816), Kubla KhanIn context
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force⁠—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIn context
- Power
I’m getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.
Ann Coulterborn 1961Interview with George Gurley in The New York Observer (January 10, 2005).
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the affrighted steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
War is kind.
Stephen Crane1871–1900War Is Kind (1899)In context
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
Stephen Crane1871–1900The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter IIn context
- Nature