Firsts Quotes by Winston Churchill

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

— Winston Churchill

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

— Winston Churchill

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.

— Winston Churchill

In war, truth is often the first casualty.

— Winston Churchill

Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.

— Winston Churchill

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

— Winston Churchill

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

— Winston Churchill

Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.

— Winston Churchill

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

— Winston Churchill

It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was…

— Winston Churchill

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

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

— Winston Churchill

When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get…

— Winston Churchill

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

— Winston Churchill

Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel."…

— Winston Churchill

Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few…

— Winston Churchill

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

No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions…

— Winston Churchill

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

And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first…

— Winston Churchill

...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed…

— Winston Churchill

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when…

— Winston Churchill

First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were…

— Winston Churchill

I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All…

— Winston Churchill

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

There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the…

— Winston Churchill

The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He…

— Winston Churchill

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them…

— Winston Churchill

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

— Winston Churchill

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next…

— Winston Churchill

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

— Winston Churchill

Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.

— Winston Churchill

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

— Winston Churchill

In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action

— Winston Churchill

Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities,…

— Winston Churchill

Smoking Cigars is like falling in love. First, you are attracted by its shape; you stay for its flavor, and you must…

— Winston Churchill

The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On…

— Winston Churchill