Winston Churchill Quotes

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

Any great war must be a popular movement.

It will plow under every fourth American boy.

War was a time when personal desires were of necessity subjugated to a singleness of purpose …

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

For all we have and are, For all our children’s fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate!

I want you all to understand that we are at war and we will stay as war until this is done. Nothing else matters. Everything is available for the pursuit of this war. Any barriers in your way, they’re gone. Any money you need, you have it. This is our only agenda.

We want to resolve this peacefully but if we can’t, there are some things worth fighting for.

You are fit for something better than ... cannon fodder.

Peacekeeping sometime requires killing to do the job properly..

Men go to war for fear, honor or interest.

Nobody wants to go to war, but the burden of service cannot fall only on volunteers who, are attracted to the military for financial reasons.

It’s very easy to advocate going to war if you’re not one of the people who is going.

As in other times, we are in a war we did not start but have no choice but to win.

We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war.