Time Quotes by Winston Churchill · Page 2

“Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

— Winston Churchill

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

— Winston Churchill

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

— Winston Churchill

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

— Winston Churchill

Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.

— Winston Churchill

“I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future.”

— Winston Churchill

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

— Winston Churchill

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.

— Winston Churchill

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells…

— Winston Churchill

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years…

— Winston Churchill

Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities,…

— Winston Churchill

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially…

— Winston Churchill

In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the…

— Winston Churchill

The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian…

— Winston Churchill

There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame…

— Winston Churchill

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I…

— Winston Churchill

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure…

— Winston Churchill

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is…

— Winston Churchill

The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was…

— Winston Churchill

Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity,…

— Winston Churchill

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of…

— Winston Churchill

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid…

— Winston Churchill

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power…

— Winston Churchill

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done,…

— Winston Churchill

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

— Winston Churchill

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

— Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

— Winston Churchill

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

— Winston Churchill

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a…

— Winston Churchill

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

— Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

— Winston Churchill

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

— Winston Churchill

“Truth is the most valuable thing in the world but often times is hidden by a bodyguard of lies.”

— Winston Churchill

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the…

— Winston Churchill

“Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.”

— Winston Churchill

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old…

— Winston Churchill

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

— Winston Churchill

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the…

— Winston Churchill

Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve…

— Winston Churchill

Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right…

— Winston Churchill