Quotes About Courage

Weakness is not treason, though it may be equally disastrous.

In War: Resolution In Defeat: Defiance In Victory: Magnanimity In Peace: Good Will

What combination of events could ever bring back again to France and Flanders the formidable Canadians of the Vimy Ridge; the glorious Australians of Villers-Bretonneux; the dauntless New Zealanders of the crater-fields of Passchendaele; the steadfast Indian Corps which in the cruel winter of

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.

The Home Guard overtopped the million mark, and when rifles were lacking grasped lustily the shotgun, the sporting rifle, the private pistol, or, when there was no firearm, the pike and the club. No Fifth Column existed in Britain, though a few spies were carefully rounded up and examined. What few Communists there were lay low. Everyone else gave all they had to give.

I have always believed and I still believe that it is the Red Army that has torn the guts out of the filthy Nazis.

You ask, What is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land, and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, What is our aim? I can answer in one word: 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.

The Germans met them in overwhelming strength, and furious fighting began. All but five of the landing party were killed or captured.

This truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

We shall not flag or fail! 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!

Only Finland—superb, nay sublime—in the jaws of peril—Finland shows what free men can do.

Salutations and congratulations upon the victory of Bardia! If I may debase a golden phrase, "never has so much been surrendered by so many to so few". The

Winston S. Churchill

The fighting man has a grim sense of justice, which it is dangerous to affront.

while here and there the bright flashes of the guns or the occasional whistle of a random bullet accompanied our path, the conviction came into my mind with absolute assurance that the simple soldiers and their regimental officers, armed with their cause, would by their virtues in the end retrieve the mistakes and ignorances of Staffs and Cabinets, of Admirals, Generals and politicians—

The goddess of Battles visits warriors only once. He who does not grasp her at such a moment never reaches her again.

The Australians plunged through the apertures and slew or captured the defenders of the galleries.

It is not every councillor who, like the Bastard in 'King John,' will say to his sovereign: 'But if you be afeared to hear the worst, Then let the worst unheard fall on your head.

Winston S. Churchill

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and to defy clamour are not fit to be Ministers in times of stress.

Pictures of heroism and triumph only tempt those who know nothing of the sufferings and terrors of war.

War is a business of terrible pressures, and persons who take part in it must fail if they are not strong enough to withstand them.

Even if you bar my way, even if you stare me in the face, I'll pass you by on the chasm's edge, finer than a hair.

History didn't greet us with triumphal fanfares: —it flung dirty sand into our eyes. Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere, poisoned wells and bitter bread.