If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat. — 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
You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking. — 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
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
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
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
If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea. — 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
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
I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only… — 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
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered. — 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
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
We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness. — 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