Winston Churchill Quotes, War Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.

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Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , War Quotes , Democracy Quotes

The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.

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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , War Quotes , Conquer Quotes

If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , War Quotes , Circles Quotes

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

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Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , War Quotes , Demand Quotes

In war the first casualty is the truth.

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Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , War Quotes , Humanity Quotes

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , War Quotes , Blood Quotes

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , War Quotes , Endless Quotes

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , War Quotes , My Family Quotes

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , War Quotes , Winning Quotes

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

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Tags : A. J. P. Taylor Quotes , Peace Quotes , War Quotes

We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence.

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War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , War Quotes , Men Quotes

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Kings Quotes , War Quotes

He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , War Quotes , Errors Quotes