Of Winston Churchill - various

Adversary
The short road to ruin is to emulate…the methods of your adversary
Alliances
• How much easier is it to join bad companions than shake
them off.
• If we are together nothing is impossible, and if we are
divided all will fail.
Analogy
• Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons
of the rhetorician.
Anti-appeasement
• 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, 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.
• The sequel to the sacrifice of honour would be the sacrifice
of lives, our people’s lives.
• We seem to be very near the bleak choice between war
and shame. My feeling is that we shall choose shame and
then have war thrown in a little later on even more adverse
terms than at present.
Appeasement
• An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping it
will eat him last.
Caution
• The counsels of prudence and restraint may become the
prime agents of mortal danger.
Champagne
• A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration.
The nerves are braced, the imagination is agreeably
stirred, the wits become more nimble. A bottle produces a
contrary effect
Civilization
• A state of society where moral force begins to escape
from the tyranny of physical force.
• When civilization degenerates: our morals will be gone
but our maxims will remain.