Quotes from Winston S. Churchill

if it was not passed, the docks, which already have become obsolescent, will have to be allowed to obsolesce into obsoleteness.

You may always walk with the Devil till you get to the end of the bridge.

War is very cruel. It goes on for so long.

the redress of the grievances of the vanquished should precede the disarmament of the victors." As will be seen, the reverse process was, to a large extent, followed by Britain, the United States, and France. And thereby hangs this tale.

There are two supreme obligations which rest upon a British government. They are of equal importance. One is to strive to prevent a war, and the other is to be ready if war should come.

In working with Allies it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own.

A battle is a veil through which it is not wise to peer.

Every war decision must be forced to a clear-cut issue, and no thought of personal friendship or political unity can find any place in such a process. The soldiers who are ordered to their deaths have a right to a plan, as well as a cause.

Lord Curzon quotes a great French agnostic and adopts his phrase: "All civilisations are the work of aristocracies." It would be much more true to say that the upkeep of aristocracy has been the hard work of all civilisations.

Promotion should always go by merit, not by age, for services and not for service.

Los hombres del comienzo no deben ser juzgados completamente bajo la luz del fin. Tenía que aprenderse todo; tenía que sufrirse todo. Pero los que aprendieron más lentamente no fueron los que tenían que sufrir más.

I think it is desirable that persons concerned with the administration of justice should carefully acquaint themselves with the nature and character of any punishments which they may be authorised to order.

The Declaration of Independence is not only an American document. It follows on Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights as the third great title-deed on which the liberties of the English-speaking people are founded. By it we lost an Empire, but by it we also preserved an Empire. By applying its principles and learning its lesson we have maintained our communion with the powerful Commonwealths our children have established beyond the seas.

He [Lord Louis Mountbatten] is what…I will venture to call "a complete triphibian"….

On October 31 the immunity of the Halifax convoys from attack was at last broken, and the American destroyer Reuben James was torpedoed and sunk with severe loss of life. This was the first loss suffered by the United States Navy in the still undeclared war.

Great Britain and the United States all one? Yes, I am all for that, and you mean me to run for President?

Never be separated from the Americans.

On November 5 he landed at Torbay, on the coast of Devon. Reminded that it was the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, he remarked to Burnet, "What do you think of Predestination now?

Anzac is the greatest word in the history of Australasia. Is it for ever to carry to future generations of Australians and New Zealanders memories of forlorn heroism and of sacrifices made in vain?…

The Soviet machine is quite convinced it can get everything by bullying, and I am sure it is a matter of some importance to show that this is not necessarily always true.

I am told that a Boston lunch party is greatly to be preferred to a Boston Tea Party.

No people respond more spontaneously to fair play. If you treat Americans well they always want to treat you better. 1943, 29 MAY

The strategic aspect of General Joffre's policy was not less stultified than the administrative. The easterly and north-easterly attacks into which his four Armies of the Right and Centre were impetuously launched, were immediately stopped and hurled back with a slaughter so frightful that it has never yet been comprehended by the world. His

El 8 de diciembre de 1917, los turcos abandonaron Jerusalén después de cuatrocientos años de odiosa dominación, y el general en jefe entró en la ciudad entre las aclamaciones de sus habitantes.