There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen. — 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
When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Dear citizen, if you were my love, I'd stole your money!' Admin if you were my love, I would ask you for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize… — 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 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
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
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
If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame… — 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