Winston Churchill Quotes

War? War is an organized bore.

If we have to go to war, we will.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

The last time I saw you Gooks was when you were shooting at me.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

You may not like to go to war, but war will come to you.

I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it's kinda cute... A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don't. It's not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

War makes early risers of us all.

War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.

A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways. They all get chummy together perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.