Winston Churchill Post War Quotes

The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln. ~ Warren Adler

The Home Secretary, a young man of thirty-seven, impossible to ignore, who, from his inappropriate post, had pelted the Prime Minister during the crisis with ideas on naval and military strategy, all of them quite sound, had produced an astonishingly accurate prediction of the future course of the fighting, and who had no doubts whatever about what needed to be done. The Home Secretary was Winston Churchill. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. ~ Winston S. Churchill

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. ~ Winston Churchill

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon ~ Winston Churchill

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left. ~ Winston Churchill

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted. ~ Winston Churchill

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget? ~ Winston S. Churchill

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential. ~ Winston Churchill

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint. ~ Winston Churchill

I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place. ~ Winston S. Churchill

All was there - the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message. ~ Winston S. Churchill

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. ~ Winston Churchill

When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply asked,'then what are we fighting for? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the Second World War, and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure. ~ Tom Hodgkinson

A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes the stimulus can be an idea, which will rapidly clothe itself in character and incident. 'Foreign Bodies' came about through the contemplation of the contrast between post-second world war America and Europe. ~ Cynthia Ozick

How often in life must one be content with what one can get! ~ Winston Churchill

A nation that forgets its past has no future ~ Sir Winston Churchill

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely. ~ Winston Churchill

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public. ~ Winston Churchill

The person must be blind, indeed, who can not see, that here on earth a great project, a great plan, is executed, may work on the realization of which we participate as faithful servants. ~ Winston Churchill

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Still, 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. ~ Winston S. Churchill

The only instance where five purely-negative words had had a highly positive, motivational impact are Winston Churchill's, Never, Never, Never, Never Give-up. ~ Nabil N. Jamal

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. ~ Winston S. Churchill

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore. ~ Winston Churchill

They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall. ~ Winston Churchill

When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to provoke such an attack on my well-known habits?" She replied, "Know nothing of your habits; hope they are better than your manners." ~ Anne Sebba

I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it. ~ Winston S. Churchill