Quotes By Winston Churchill

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.

Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.

It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

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.

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

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

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

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.