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.

Quote by Winston Churchill

Topics: War Quotes

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it....

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it....

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and...

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and...

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

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

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of...

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of...

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add...

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add...

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether...

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether...

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

A joke is a very serious thing.

A joke is a very serious thing.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what...

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what...

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:...

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:...

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which...

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which...

Never, never, never give up.

Never, never, never give up.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you...

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you...

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at...

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at...

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer...

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer...

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics,...

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics,...