While often attributed to Churchill, a search of over 2.5 million words by and about Churchill in The Churchill Centre’s research database fails to show that Churchill ever spoke or wrote those words. An almost equal number of sources found online credit these sayings to Abraham Lincoln-but we have found none that provides any attribution in the Lincoln Archives. They are found nowhere in his canon, however.
We can find no attribution for either one of these and you will find that they are broadly attributed to Winston Churchill. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” And also, “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” ‘However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.’ Churchill with his great memory could quite easily have repeated and embroidered on Birkenhead’s remark when he visited the Plaza Hotel in New York, shortly after Birkenhead’s death, in 1931, as is sometimes recorded. Smith, Lord Birkenhead, who originated the remark, ‘Mr Churchill is easily satisfied with the best’ (without ‘man of simple tastes’ or ‘of everything’). ‘I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.’ 1930s, Passim.Īccording to Churchill’s private secretary Sir John Colville, it was Churchill’s close friend F.E. “The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.”Ĭhurchill’s assistant, Anthony Montague-Browne said, that although Churchill had not uttered these words, he wished he had. ‘Never quit Never, never, never quit!’ [Also sometimes quoted as ‘Never, never, never give up!’īoth are misquotations of what Churchill actually said, which was, ‘Never give in-never, never, never, never, except to convictions of honour and good sense.’ Rum, Sodomy and the Lash What Churchill actually said was, “The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.” Never Quit
“The further backward you look, the further forward you can see.” Also commonly stated as, “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.”Įach of these quotes is commonly attributed to Churchill-even by HM The Queen in her 1999 Christmas Message to the British Commonwealth. It’s a nice quote but definitely not Winston Churchill.
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This one comes up on many internet quote sites and was even reiterated in a 2005 TV ad by Lockheed Martin. “You make a living by what you get you make a life by what you give.” Winston Churchill’s official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, speaking of this quote, noted that Churchill actually said, ‘Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war.’ Four years later, during a visit to Australia, Harold Macmillan said the words usually-and wrongly-attributed to Churchill: “Jaw, jaw is better than war, war.” Credit: Harold Macmillan. ‘Jaw, jaw and war, war Jaw, jaw is better than war, war.’ 1954, Washington. This includes all of Churchill’s published books, articles, speeches and letters.
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A search of the digital archive by Finest Hour of Winston Churchill’s 15 million published words, plus 35 million words about him by colleagues, biographers and historians, produced no results for this phrase. This “integrity” quote has been making its way around the Internet for many years. The quote has been ascribed to Lord Riddell’s War Diary, but no such words appear there. Supposedly WSC made this wry remark when Lloyd George said he heard that Arthur Balfour was “dominating the League of Nations”.
“If you wanted nothing done, Arthur Balfour was the best man for the task. It’s not a phrase that is contained anywhere in the canon of Winston Churchill’s written or spoken words. We haven’t seen any correct attribution of this quote that appears frequently on the Internet and printed on motivation posters. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” This remark about the intractable Charles de Gaulle was actually made by General Spears, Churchill’s envoy to France. “The hardest cross I have to bear is the Cross of Lorraine.” Kansas City, October 6-8, 2022 Cross of Lorraine Join us at the National WWI Museum for the 39th International Churchill Conference.
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