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“A large proportion of the population of religious countries pass their lives at leisure, supported by the patient labour of the devout.” (The River War Quotes)
Winston S. Churchill
The River War
“A man will perhaps tolerate an offensive word applied to himself, but will be infuriated if his nation, his rank, or his profession is insulted.”
Winston S. Churchill
The River War
“A wide humanitarian sympathy in a nation easily degenerates into hysteria. A military spirit tends towards brutality. Liberty leads to licence, restraint to tyranny. The pride of race is distended to blustering arrogance. The fear of God produces bigotry and superstition. There appears no exception to the mournful rule, and the best efforts of men, however glorious their early results, have dismal endings, like plants which shoot and bud and put forth beautiful flowers, and then grow rank and coarse and are withered by the winter.”
Winston S. Churchill
The River War
“Fanaticism is not a cause of war. It is the means which helps savage peoples to fight. It is the spirit which enables them to combine—the great common object before which all personal or tribal disputes become insignificant.”
Winston S. Churchill
The River War
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.”
Winston S. Churchill
The River War
“I do not propose to recount the Homeric struggles of the ‘friendlies.’ Little in them is worthy of remembrance; much seeks oblivion.”
Winston S. Churchill
The River War
“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”
Winston S. Churchill
The River War
“No community embarks on a great enterprise without fortifying itself with the belief that from some points of view its motives are lofty and disinterested. It is an involuntary tribute, the humble tribute of imperfect beings, to the eternal temples of Truth and Beauty.” (The River War Quotes)
Winston S. Churchill
The River War
“No operation of a war is more critical than a night-march.”
Winston S. Churchill
The River War
“Since any armed movement against an established Government can be justified only by success, strength is an important revolutionary virtue.”
Winston S. Churchill
The River War
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong; and a boy deprived of a father’s care often develops, if he escape the perils of youth, an independence and vigour of thought which may restore in after life the heavy loss of early days.”
Winston S. Churchill
The River War
“The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.”
Winston S. Churchill
The River War
“The old capital is solitary and deserted. No sound of man breaks the silence of its streets. Only memory broods in the garden where the Pashas used to walk, and the courtyard where the Imperial envoy fell.”
Winston S. Churchill
The River War
“The ugly truth is revealed that fear is the foundation of obedience.”
Winston S. Churchill
The River War
“Victory is the beautiful, bright-coloured flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed. Yet even the military student, in his zeal to master the fascinating combinations of the actual conflict, often forgets the far more intricate complications of supply.”
Winston S. Churchill
The River War
