Winston Churchill Quotes

In war ... diplomacy is the handmaiden of the necessities of the War Office.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

War is the trade of Kings.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

War is failure of diplomacy.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.