In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield. — 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
The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man. — 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
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Smoking Cigars is like falling in love. First, you are attracted by its shape; you stay for its flavor, and you must… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities,… — 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
Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel."… — 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… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He… — 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
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first… — 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