Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

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.

Winston Churchill

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Winston Churchill

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them

Winston Churchill

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Winston Churchill

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Winston Churchill

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

Winston Churchill

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

Winston Churchill

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.

Winston Churchill

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Winston Churchill

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

Winston Churchill

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

Willie Morris

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

William Kristol

[I]t's up to Republicans to expose the bureaucracies and criticize the orthodoxies - to ask why visas for travel to the United States are still being issued in West Africa and why American military forces are being deployed there without a workable plan or intelligible purpose, why CDC spending priorities are so skewed and CDC management so weak, and why here at home routine police powers aren't being used and routine public health measures aren't being implemented.

William J. Brennan

The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism.

William Jennings Bryan

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

Woodrow Wilson

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

Woodrow Wilson

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Woodrow Wilson

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

Woodrow Wilson

The right is more precious than peace.

Woodrow Wilson

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

Woodrow Wilson

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

Woodrow Wilson

Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.

Yasser Arafat

Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.

Yasser Arafat

We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else.

Wole Soyinka

After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.

Winston Churchill

it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.

Winston Churchill

In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action

Winston Churchill

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

Will Rogers

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Warren Farrell

In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.