Winston Churchill Quotes About Military
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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
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Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.
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Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
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Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.
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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
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Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.
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No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
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Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.
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You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
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Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
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Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
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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.
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Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
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Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
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I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.
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If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts.
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Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.
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The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.
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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
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I never worry about action, but only inaction.
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It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.
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We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.
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Air power may either end war or end civilization.
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
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I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.
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Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.
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Winston Churchill
- Born: November 30, 1874
- Died: January 24, 1965
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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