Time Quotes by Winston Churchill · Page 3

Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Winston Churchill

We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and…

— Winston Churchill

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

— 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

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight…

— Winston Churchill

“Let us accept the natural order in which we move. Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such…

— Winston Churchill

I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and…

— Winston Churchill

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be…

— 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

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

— Winston Churchill

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

— Winston Churchill

It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze…

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so…

— 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

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

“When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you…

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

— Winston Churchill