Kites Rise Highest Against The Wind

This quote has no verified connection to Churchill. Quote Investigator traced the expression to American writer John Neal, who used it in an 1846 essay titled "Enterprise and Perseverance" published in the Weekly Mirror of New York. The sentiment appeared in a 1919 teachers' journal before being linked to Churchill for the first time only in 1963, in a Texas newspaper's collection of miscellaneous sayings. The Churchill Archive holds no record of it, and the book Churchill By Himself does not include it among his verified quotations.