Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it! — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Of this I am quite sure. If we open up a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“I do not suppose that at any moment of history has the agony of the world been so great or widespread. Tonight… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and… — 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
It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“For get this quite clear, every time we have to decide between Europe and the open sea, it is always the open… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that… — 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
There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon… — 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
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the seas… — 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