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History Quotes by Winston Churchill
- The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
- We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
- Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose…
- In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign on Russia, we can already see, after six months of fighting, that he has made one of the…
- I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.
- Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing…
- Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest…
- History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.
- History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards…
- May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There…
- I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.
- History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale…
- I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of…
- If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion…
- The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They…
- Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what…
- This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and…
- Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed…
- No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.
- Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?
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