Winston Churchill Quotes

I am terrified of submarines.

Captain William Thomas Turner, hero; villain, Schwieger. As I started doing research into him and into the submarine and so forth, I found that I was growing increasingly sympathetic to him. He's a young guy, 30, handsome, well-liked by his crew, humane.

Opposition work is not without its dangers. But if you've chosen a job like that for yourself, you then subsequently shouldn't spend your time every second thinking, oh my God, what might happen to me? Oh my God, what might happen to me? Your colleagues include quite a large number of war correspondents. Their job is not the least dangerous in the world, either.

What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know.

I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

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

No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, and handing over food and water. Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews. Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities.

The combat man isn't the same clean-cut lad because you don't fight a kraut by Marquis of Queensberry rules. You shoot him in the back, you blow him apart with mines, you kill or maim him the quickest and most effective way you can with the least danger to yourself. He does the same to you.

Winston, who has got on all his war-paint, is longing for a sea battle in the early hours of tomorrow morning… The whole thing fills me with sadness.

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.

Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about the samurai and things like that. Right after Pearl Harbor, they were just real quiet. They kept to themselves; they were afraid to talk about what could happen. I assume they knew that nothing good would come out of it.

In Afghanistan, getting shot at was a regular occurrence. I viewed survival as a numbers game. As point man, every time I entered a Taliban compound first, I played the odds in my head.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

He that is not in the warres is not out of danger.

The root of war is fear.

Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

I feel that the world is in a really dangerous place and it scares me.

I am the colour red, in a world of black and white and if you value your ability to breathe... Don't get too close.