Quotes from Winston S. Churchill

A man will perhaps tolerate an offensive word applied to himself, but will be infuriated if his nation, his rank, or his profession is insulted.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice

If you are going through hell, keep going

it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.

The foundation of the Germanic system was blood and kin.

In Germany they had no kings. They developed them in Britain from leaders who claimed descent from the ancient gods.

A man may be poor; he may have nothing at all except his labour to sell; he may be a manual worker for a weekly wage, but in a free commonwealth he must enjoy as good a right as any lord, or prelate, or capitalist in the country to the integrity of his own political convictions.

All comes out even at the end of the day, and all will come out yet more even when all the days are ended.

The effective combination of the whole English-speaking world in the waging of war and the creation of the Grand Alliance form the conclusion to this part of my account. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL CHARTWELL January 1, 1950

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one.

In harsh or melancholy epochs free men may always take comfort from the grand lesson of history, that tyrannies cannot last except among servile races. The years which seem endless to those who endure them are but a flick of mischance in the journey. New and natural hopes leap from the human heart as every spring revives the cultivated soil and rewards the faithful, patient husbandmen.

A society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners

we must not let our standards be determined by the gentlemen of the oposition

for ambition stirs imagination nearly as much as imagination excites ambition.

When York's son, hitherto Earl of March, learned that his father's cause had devolved upon him he did not shrink. He fell upon the Earl of Wiltshire and the Welsh Lancastrians, and on February 2, 1461, at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross, near Hereford, he beat and broke

St Patrick was a Roman Briton of good family dwelling probably in the Severn valley.

Later these tales would be retold and embellished by the genius of Mallory, Spenser, and Tennyson.

The Bolsheviks do not represent Russia, they represent an international conception of human affairs entirely foreign and indeed hostile to anything we know of civilisation;

Strange as it may seem, the Air Force, except in the air, is the least mobile of all the services. A squadron can reach its destination in a few hours, but its establishments, depots, fuel, spare parts, and workshops take many weeks, and even months, to develop.

compulsory duty on every male German reaching the age of twenty. For six months he would have to serve his country, constructing roads, building barracks, or draining marshes, thus fitting him physically and morally for the crowning duty of a German citizen, service with the armed forces.

when the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Virtuous motives, trammelled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness.

Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, two of the. noblest men ever born on the American continent.

Around Whitehall, a sacking from Churchill was known as the 'awarding of the Order of the Boot.