To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. Winston Churchill More Quotes by Winston Churchill More Quotes From Winston Churchill I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action. Winston Churchill responsibility bears action We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes. Winston Churchill invasion waiting long If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. Winston Churchill not-giving-up devil house Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds. Winston Churchill russia political-opinions rights The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility. Winston Churchill struggle christian war Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required. Winston Churchill rainy-day sunshine sometimes Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and with her unswerving fidelity to the British Commonwealth and the Motherland on the other, is the link which joins together these great branches of the human family, a link which, spanning the oceans, brings the continents into their true relation and will prevent in future generations any growth of division between the proud and the happy nations of Europe and the great countries which have come into existence in the New World. Winston Churchill ocean country hands The Aryan stock is bound to triumph. Winston Churchill bounds triumph politics I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected. Winston Churchill poison-gas tribes use Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out. Winston Churchill responsibility clever war Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918. Winston Churchill joy night war Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world Winston Churchill canada-funny canada world Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Winston Churchill inspiring life death Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told. Winston Churchill guides england stories Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn. Winston Churchill good-night morning war Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work. Winston Churchill working-man men history If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas. Winston Churchill book art fall No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die. Winston Churchill horse grief taken A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble. Winston Churchill champagne-drinking glasses imagination 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. Winston Churchill military war peace