Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1433
AUTHOR:
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (18741965)
QUOTATION:
For myself I am an optimistit does not seem to be much use being anything else.
ATTRIBUTION:
Prime Minister WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech, Lord Mayors banquet, London, November 9, 1954.Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 18971963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 8, pp. 86034 (1974).