The Hinge of Fate Quotes

“To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, two of the. noblest men ever born on the American continent.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“All this shows how much luck there is in human affairs, and how little we should worry about anything except doing our best.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“all that is in the past, and the past belongs to God.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“Here he was [de Gaulle] - a refugee, an exile from his country under sentence of death, in a position entirely dependent upon the good will of the British Government, and also now of the United States. The Germans had conquered his country. He had no real foothold anywhere. Never mind; he defied all. Always, even when he was behaving worst, he seemed to express the personality of France - a great nation, with all its pride, authority, and ambition.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“No people respond more spontaneously to fair play. If you treat Americans well they always want to treat you better.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, 1950

“meet with Triumph and Disaster,
And treat those two impostors just the same.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, 1950

“The Germans met them in overwhelming strength, and furious fighting began. All but five of the landing party were killed or captured.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, 1950

“It is however easier to infuriate Americans than to cow them.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, 1950

“always followed, so far as I could see, the principle that military commanders should not be judged by results, but by the quality of their effort.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, 1950

“was that the possibility of Singapore having no landward defences no more entered into my mind than that of a battleship being launched without a bottom.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, 1950

“The American chiefs do not like to be outdone in generosity. No people respond more spontaneously to fair play. If you treat Americans well they always want to treat you better.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“If countries remote from a dispute were among those called upon in the first instance to achieve a settlement the result was likely to be merely vapid and academic discussion.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“Shoot if you must this old grey head,
But spare your country’s flag,’ she said.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“Evidently he had the first quality of an angler, which is not to measure the pleasure by the catch.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“the Battle of Alamein, called Desert Victory.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“My children, it is permitted you in time of grave danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“It marked in fact the turning of “the Hinge of Fate”. It may almost be said, “Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“I look forward to a United States of Europe in which the barriers between the nations will be greatly minimised and unrestricted travel will be possible.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“Burke’s dictum, “If I cannot have reform without injustice, I will not have reform.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“The goddess of Battles visits warriors only once. He who does not grasp her at such a moment never reaches her again.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“The House must be a steady stabilising factor in the State, and not an instrument by which the disaffected sections of the Press can attempt to promote one crisis after another.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“democracies are apt to think with their hearts rather than with their heads, and a general’s business is, or should be, to use his head for planning.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

“Great Britain will certainly do her utmost to organise a coalition resistance to any act of aggression committed by any Power, and it is believed that the United States will co-operate with her, and even possibly take the lead of the world, on account of her numbers and strength, in the good work of preventing such tendencies to aggression before they break into open war.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate