Winston Churchill Quotes About History

• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

  Winston Churchill

  Determination, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940
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  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Leadership, Education

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

• Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, History, Secret

  "Churchill By Himself".

• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Speech at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 6 Sept. 1943

• History is written by the victors.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Humorous, Winning

  Edmund Murray, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1995). “Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies 1992-1993”, Churchill Center

• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

  Winston Churchill

  Memorial Day, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Badass

• Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Thinking, Self

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

• The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, History, Justice

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.108, A&C Black

• Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Years

  Speech in House of Commons, 18 June 1940

• We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

  Winston Churchill

  Stay Strong, Jobs, Long

  Radio broadcast, 9 Feb. 1941

• We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

  Winston Churchill

  Wisdom, Believe, History

  Quoted in Violet Bonham-Carter, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (1965)

• 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 gleams the passion of former days.

  Winston Churchill

  Passion, Past, Echoes

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

• What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Dark, Greatest Victory

  Hansard 13 May 1940, col. 1502

• Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, History, Working Man

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

• 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 to write that history myself.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Writing, Past

  Speech in House of Commons, 23 Jan. 1948

• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Iron, History

  Address at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., 5 Mar. 1946.

• Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

  Winston Churchill

  History, Lessons, Mankind

  Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

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