Winston Churchill Peace Quotes

#1. Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

Winston Churchill

#2. We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace for the post-war period.

Dick Gephardt

#3. The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

Winston Churchill

#4. Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good.

Winston Churchill

#5. My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.

Winston Churchill

#6. Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful.

Winston Churchill

#7. 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.

Winston Churchill

#8. The spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.

William Shakespeare

#9. Good men must be affectionate men.

Samuel Richardson

#10. If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?

David Levithan

#11. They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing.

Jim Rogers

#12. Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.

Winston Churchill

#13. Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#14. It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

Winston Churchill

#15. Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

Winston Churchill

#16. There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."

Winston Churchill

#17. We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth.

Winston Churchill

#18. There was actually a time when people wanted to give Hitler the benefit of the doubt as to his intentions (in 1935, Winston Churchill thought it possible that Hitler might "go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the Great Germanic nation").

Russell Shorto

#19. 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

#20. Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

Winston Churchill

#21. I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

Jerry Spinelli

#22. We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

Winston Churchill

#23. It is often possible to elicit the behavior you want through nonfinancial means.

Steven D. Levitt

#24. No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.

Winston Churchill

#25. If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both

Winston Churchill

#26. In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will.

Winston S. Churchill

#27. It's just a thing, Kasia. Don't waste your energy on the hate. That will kill you sure as anything. Focus on keeping your strength. You're resourceful. Find a way to outsmart them.

Martha Hall Kelly

#28. 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.

Winston Churchill

#29. Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

Vincent Van Gogh

#30. Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

Winston Churchill

#31. Millard! Who's the prime minister?"
"Winston Churchill," he said. "Have you gone daft?"
"What's the capital of Burma?"
"Lord, I've no idea. Rangoon?"
"Good! When's your birthday?"
"Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!

Ransom Riggs

#32. It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.

Abbie Cobb

#33. My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.

Dries Van Noten

#34. It's interesting because when David Fincher was making "Fight Club," he said, "It's a romance." And it really is. Almost everything I ever write is just a romance. And that needed to be sort of pointed up at the end of "Fight Club." The film has a very different ending than the book does.

Chuck Palahniuk

#35. There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

Winston Churchill