I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom. — 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
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
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
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
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
To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action. — Winston Churchill Copy Share