I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ...… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We will mete out to the Germans the measure and more than the measure that they have meted out to us. We… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Are you an action-oriented, take-charge person interested in exciting new challenges? As director of a major public-sector organization, you will manage a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image