Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.


Quoted by Robert Boothby in Robert Boothy, Recollections of a Rebel (London: Hutchison, 1978), pp. 183–84.

Winston Churchill Quotes

Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them....

Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them....

Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them....

Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them....