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“All comes out even at the end of the day, and all will come out yet more even when all the days are ended.” (The Gathering Storm Quotes by Winston S. Churchill)
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“All was there—the program of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit of the world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice! Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“I remember that we had a discussion in the war about unity of command, and that Mr. Lloyd George said, “It is not a question of one general being better than another, but of one general being better than two.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“In 1933 the students of the Oxford Union, under the inspiration of a Mr. Joad, passed their ever-shameful resolution, “That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“It would not be right or rational that the Aggressor Power should gain one set of advantages by tearing up all laws, and another set by sheltering behind the innate respect for law of its opponents. Humanity, rather than legality, must be our guide.” (The Gathering Storm Quotes by Winston S. Churchill)
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“Of course the introduction of conscription at this stage did not give us an army. It only applied to the men of twenty years of age; they had still to be trained; and after they had been trained they had still to be armed.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“One thing is absolutely certain, namely, that victory will never be found by taking the line of least resistance.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small State to the wolves is a fatal delusion.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“The worst quarrels only arise when both sides are equally in the right and in the wrong.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is a far worse war or one much harder to win.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“They have destroyed your weapons,” he had told the generals, in effect. “But these weapons would in any case have become obsolete before the next war. That war will be fought with brand-new ones, and the army which is least hampered with obsolete material will have a great advantage.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“Virtuous motives, trammelled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“We shall see how the counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger; how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bull’s-eye of disaster.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
“When Marshal Foch heard of the signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles he observed with singular accuracy: “This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years.”
Winston S. Churchill
The Gathering Storm
