Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

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.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.