Quotes about Leadership
The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.
— Winston Churchill
I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
— Winston Churchill
Let us… brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour."
— Winston Churchill
When I warned [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Some chicken; some neck.
— Winston Churchill
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
I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf.
— Winston Churchill
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
— Winston Churchill
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
— Winston Churchill
The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.
— Winston Churchill
This was their finest hour
— Winston Churchill
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
— Woodrow Wilson
Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.
— Woodrow Wilson