--- title: "37 Firsts Quotes By Winston Churchill" description: "37 Firsts quotes by Winston Churchill. Plus more from Winston Churchill and more Firsts sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d6/winston-churchill-95_attend_cannot-possibly-attend-first-night-will_72814.jpg" --- > [Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/cannot-possibly-attend-first-night-will-attend-second-if-there-is-one/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d6/winston-churchill-95_attend_cannot-possibly-attend-first-night-will_72814.jpg) > [In war, truth is often the first casualty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/in-war-truth-is-often-the-first-casualty/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e47/winston-churchill-95_casualties_in-war-truth-is-often-the-first-casualty_2019726.jpg) > [If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/if-you-want-to-discover-new-oceans-you-must-first-have-the-courage-to/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c60/winston-churchill-95_courage_if-you-want-to-discover-new-oceans-you-m_1232947.jpg) > [To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/to-secure-your-historical-standing-be-sure-you-are-the-first-to-write/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e3/winston-churchill-95_firsts_to-secure-your-historical-standing-be-su_2507009.jpg) > [In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/in-order-to-become-a-great-man-one-must-first-be-a-great-rascal/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93f/winston-churchill-95_firsts_in-order-to-become-a-great-man-one-must_130918.jpg) > [If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/if-i-were-the-first-of-may-i-should-be-ashamed-of-myself/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa2/winston-churchill-95_ashamed_if-i-were-the-first-of-may-i-should-be-a_1770347.jpg) > [The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/the-cultivation-of-a-hobby-and-new-forms-of-interest-is-a-policy-of/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/162/winston-churchill-95_cultivation_the-cultivation-of-a-hobby-and-new-forms_2443167.jpg) > [Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/unteachable-from-infancy-to-tomb-there-is-the-first-and-main/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb0/winston-churchill-95_characteristics_unteachable-from-infancy-to-tomb-there-i_1453501.jpg) > [For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/for-the-first-25-years-of-my-life-i-wanted-freedom-for-the-next-25/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d9/winston-churchill-95_firsts_for-the-first-25-years-of-my-life-i-want_2164897.jpg) > [I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/i-have-not-become-the-kings-first-minister-in-order-to-preside-over/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/winston-churchill-95_british_i-have-not-become-the-kings-first-minist_846175.jpg) > [Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/say-what-you-have-to-say-and-the-first-time-you-come-to-a-sentence/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eee/winston-churchill-95_first-time_say-what-you-have-to-say-and-the-first-t_663751.jpg) > [America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/america-can-always-be-counted-upon-to-do-the-right-thing-in-the-end/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/899/winston-churchill-95_alternatives_america-can-always-be-counted-upon-to-do_1958530.jpg) > [In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/in-critical-and-baffling-situations-it-is-always-best-to-return-to/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/783/winston-churchill-95_action_in-critical-and-baffling-situations-it-i_1370558.jpg) > [There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/there-is-nothing-government-can-give-you-that-it-hasn-t-taken-from/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53d/winston-churchill-95_first-place_there-is-nothing-government-can-give-you_2826215.jpg) > [...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/every-offensive-lost-its-force-as-it-proceeded-it-was-like-throwing-a/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d82/winston-churchill-95_buckets_every-offensive-lost-its-force-as-it-pro_1456087.jpg) > [And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/and-do-not-suppose-that-this-is-the-end-this-is-only-the-beginning-of/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/246/winston-churchill-95_appeasement_and-do-not-suppose-that-this-is-the-end_2670299.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/when-you-re-20-you-care-what-everyone-thinks-when-you-re-40-you-stop/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcb/winston-churchill-95_care_when-you-re-20-you-care-what-everyone-th_14365.jpg) > [No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/no-socialist-government-conducting-the-entire-life-and-industry-of/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06a/winston-churchill-95_conducting_no-socialist-government-conducting-the-e_368720.jpg) > [Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/now-at-last-the-slowly-gathered-long-pent-up-fury-of-the-storm-broke/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c54/winston-churchill-95_broke_now-at-last-the-slowly-gathered-long-pen_1972701.jpg) > [ The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... \[But\] we defeated \[them\] by 9 goals to 3. On… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/the-golcondas-were-considered-incomparably-the-best-team-in-southern/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bd/winston-churchill-95_best-team_the-golcondas-were-considered-incomparab_3071517.jpg) > [Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/men-and-kings-must-be-judged-in-the-testing-moments-of-their-lives/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/229/winston-churchill-95_courage_men-and-kings-must-be-judged-in-the-test_3099488.jpg) > [Smoking Cigars is like falling in love. First, you are attracted by its shape; you stay for its flavor, and you must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/smoking-cigars-is-like-falling-in-love-first-you-are-attracted-by-its/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55b/winston-churchill-95_cigar_smoking-cigars-is-like-falling-in-love-f_961466.jpg) > [I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/i-now-began-for-the-first-time-to-envy-those-young-cubs-at-the/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d9/winston-churchill-95_action_i-now-began-for-the-first-time-to-envy-t_172853.jpg) > [ The very first thing the President \[Truman\] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/the-very-first-thing-the-president-truman-did-was-to-show-me-the-new/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36b/winston-churchill-95_american-eagle_the-very-first-thing-the-president-truma_3048764.jpg) > [There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/there-are-two-processes-which-we-adopt-consciously-or-unconsciously/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/winston-churchill-95_alterations_there-are-two-processes-which-we-adopt-c_266643.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/you-haven-t-learned-life-s-lesson-very-well-if-you-haven-t-noticed/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d4/winston-churchill-95_colour_you-haven-t-learned-life-s-lesson-very-w_2195824.jpg) > [First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/first-poland-has-been-again-overrun-by-two-of-the-great-powers-which/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e6/winston-churchill-95_bondage_first-poland-has-been-again-overrun-by-t_1824939.jpg) > [I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/i-will-begin-by-saying-what-everybody-would-like-to-ignore-or-forget/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c94/winston-churchill-95_abandoned_i-will-begin-by-saying-what-everybody-wo_264575.jpg) > [For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/for-the-first-time-i-heard-shots-fired-in-anger-heard-bullets-strike/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e2/winston-churchill-95_action_for-the-first-time-i-heard-shots-fired-i_1700461.jpg) > [It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/it-was-at-little-lodge-i-was-first-menaced-with-education-the/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/474/winston-churchill-95_approach_it-was-at-little-lodge-i-was-first-menac_697230.jpg) > [Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/christopher-columbus-was-the-first-socialist-he-didn-t-know-where-he/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f9/winston-churchill-95_columbus_christopher-columbus-was-the-first-socia_1058562.jpg) > [The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/the-first-duty-of-a-university-is-to-teach-wisdom-not-trade-character/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f84/winston-churchill-95_character_the-first-duty-of-a-university-is-to-tea_896818.jpg) > [Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/renown-awaits-the-commander-who-first-restores-artillery-to-its-prime/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a30/winston-churchill-95_artillery_renown-awaits-the-commander-who-first-re_2299619.jpg) > [When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/when-i-get-to-heaven-i-mean-to-spend-a-considerable-portion-of-my/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45f/winston-churchill-95_artist_when-i-get-to-heaven-i-mean-to-spend-a-c_2548151.jpg) > [I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/i-gather-young-man-that-you-wish-to-be-a-member-of-parliament-the/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db0/winston-churchill-95_baby_i-gather-young-man-that-you-wish-to-be-a_2783920.jpg) > [Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/before-the-war-it-had-seemed-incredible-that-such-terrors-and/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e7/winston-churchill-95_action_before-the-war-it-had-seemed-incredible_1622246.jpg) > [Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/here-churchill-repeats-with-approval-a-statement-he-had-first-made-in/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f6/winston-churchill-95_1930s_here-churchill-repeats-with-approval-a-s_2895738.jpg) ## Other authors on Firsts ## More by Winston Churchill > [The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/the-man-who-can-master-his-time-can-master-nearly-anything/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) > [This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/this-is-no-time-for-ease-and-comfort-it-is-time-to-dare-and-endure/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/if-i-had-been-an-italian-i-am-sure-that-i-should-have-been-whole/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) > [Never, never, never give up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/never-never-never-give-up/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) > [I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/i-play-for-high-stakes-and-given-an-audience-there-is-no-act-too/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) > [Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/man-will-occasionally-stumble-over-the-truth-but-most-times-he-will/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) > [The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/the-american-constitution-declares-all-men-are-born-equal-the-british/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) > [God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/god-alone-knows-how-great-it-is-all-i-hope-is-that-it-is-not-too-late/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 no one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/when-you-re-20-you-care-what-everyone-thinks-when-you-re-40-you-stop/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) > [Writing a book is an adventure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/writing-a-book-is-an-adventure/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) > [All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/all-men-make-mistakes-but-only-wise-men-learn-from-their-mistakes/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) > [People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/people-who-are-not-prepared-to-do-unpopular-things-and-defy-the/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) > [To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/to-meet-roosevelt-with-all-his-buoyant-sparkle-his-iridescence-was/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) > [I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/i-am-always-ready-to-learn-although-i-do-not-always-like-being-taught/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) > [There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/there-are-plenty-of-good-ideas-if-only-they-can-be-backed-with-the/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/firsts/winston-churchill/#itemlist", "name": "37 Firsts Quotes By Winston Churchill", "numberOfItems": 37, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Winston Churchill" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/cannot-possibly-attend-first-night-will-attend-second-if-there-is-one/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d6/winston-churchill-95_attend_cannot-possibly-attend-first-night-will_72814.jpg", 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