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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1433
AUTHOR: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
QUOTATION: For myself I am an optimist—it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
ATTRIBUTION: Prime Minister WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech, Lord Mayor’s banquet, London, November 9, 1954.—Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 8, pp. 8603–4 (1974).
SUBJECTS: Positive thinking