Winston Churchill Quotes, War Quotes, Fiction Quotes

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

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The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited.

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History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards the German chancellor prior to the outbreak of war: We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation. . . .

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It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished.

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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

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Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.

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The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

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If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

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War is out of date, obsolete.

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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

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There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

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Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played a German piece of music and a woman in the audience exclaimed: "How wonderful! It sounds so German!" Einstein responded: "Madam, people are all the same."

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An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

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I think that if you don't think we're in a war that you can't win the war.

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