"We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.
More by Winston Churchill
“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.”
“One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.”
“When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.”
More on Peace
“Listen to the sound of silence.”
“... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?”
“We ain't goin' study war no more.”