4 Winston Churchill Quotes on Virtue

Winston Churchill quotes on virtue

79. In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will.

98. When we reflect upon the brutal vices of these salt-water bandits, pirates as shameful as any whom the sea has borne, or recoil from their villainous destruction and cruel deeds, we must also remember the discipline, the fortitude, the comradeship and martial virtues which made them at this period beyond all challenge the most formidable and daring race in the world.

114. Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied the natural goodness and valour of the human race in unexampled perfection. Unconquerable courage, infinite compassion, the virtue of the simple, the wisdom of the just, shone forth in her. She glorifies as she freed the soil from which she sprang.

121. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.