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.
Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston Churchill

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston Churchill

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Winston Churchill

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
Winston Churchill

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
Winston Churchill

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Winston Churchill

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

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill

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