Winston Churchill 71 Years Ago Today [13 May] (1 Viewer)

[BLReed]

"Friday May 13, marks the seventy-first anniversary of Winston Churchill’s first speech in the House of Commons as Prime Minister. It was a short speech, made as Nazi troops drove Britain’s armies from the continent and began their conquest of Western Europe. But it was memorable, above all for its peroration, in which Churchill offered only “blood, toil, tears and sweat” and proclaimed that the aim of his government was simple: “Victory – victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be.”

Read more:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/05/13/churchills-lessons-war-peace-ring-true-today/

 

[Mitch]

A great man who did so much to ensure the world was free from tyranny
Mitch

 

[theBaron]

Amen to that, Mitch!