"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft." ― Winston Churchill Topic(s): History Tags: history, study More From Winston Churchill "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." "In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times." More In History "When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can’t teach poetry. This is ridiculous."― Norman MacCaig "Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."― Mahatma Gandhi "What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"― Jackie Kennedy