Posted on 10/05/2015 9:01:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender."
- Winston Churchill - August 20, 1940
In June 1940 things were looking bleak for Britain. The French army had collapsed and the British Expeditionary Force, 300,000 men, were trapped in Dunkirk with the German army rapidly advancing toward them. All seemed lost. Yet when Winston Churchill addressed the House of Commons and later the nation by radio, his words galvanized the country and gave them the will to go on.
After the war was over, Clement Atlee was asked what he thought Churchill had done to win the war. Allee responded, "I would say he talked about it."
This was not wrong. It was through Churchill's speeches to the nation that he held Britain together in its darkest hour and gave the people a strong belief that they would endure and ultimately succeed. The American journalist, Edward R. Murrow said, "the effect if his speeches is incalculable."(continued)
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The liberals don’t want to think that it’s Trump’s stand on the issues that makes him popular.
It must be Twitter.
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
-Winston Churchill
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