"We must learn to be equally good at what is short and sharp and what is long and tough. It is generally said that the British are often better at the last. They do not expect to move from crisis to crisis; they do not always expect that each day will bring up some noble chance of war; but when they very slowly make up their minds that the thing has to be done and the job put through and finished, then, even if it takes months - if it takes years - they do it." -- Winston Churchill, Speech at Harrow School, October 29, 1941

"The story of the human race is War. Except for brief and precarious interludes, there has never been peace in the world" -- Winston Churchill, 1932,Thoughts and Adventures (US: Amid These Storms)

"There is only one thing certain about war: that it is full of disappointments and also full of mistakes." -- Winston Churchill, 27 April 1941

"Dictatorship nurses within itself the canker that must destroy it. The dictators wear out their countries. They demand permanently what men and women are only willing to give in an emergency. And in the end they kill those very qualities of leadership that make them redoubtable." -- Winston Churchill, 1938, Colliers

"It is the English-Speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom." -- Winston Churchill, 1938, News of The World