History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Author: Winston S. Churchill Copy Quote More from Winston S. Churchill “I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view…” “We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man…” “A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstac…” “I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”