Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.