"We do not covet anything from any..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
More by Winston Churchill
“it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.”
“There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.”
“But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?”
More on International Relations
“I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.”
“I don't have to negotiate an arms agreement with Great Britain or with France.”
“Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.”
More on Respect
“I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.”
“If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.”
“If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings”