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Famous Winston Churchill Quotes
“We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.”
“Wars are not won by evacuations.”
“There is no working middle course in wartime.”
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
“When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.”
“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.”
“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.”
“When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”
“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”
“War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.”
“Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.”
“I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.”