If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you find something you really love, you will never work again. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It happens that once we learn a thing, the motivation to keep it up grows and expands further as well. If you're… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to… — 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… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of 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
One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you! — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done. — 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 hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism. — 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
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
To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. — 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