On this Veteran''s Day, I am thinking of my Dad. He served in WW2 and according to him he won it and who am I to argue? My Dad had a couple people he really admired, one of them was Winston Churchill.
I have been thinking of Winston Churchill this last week and the results of the election. Reading the blogs and the pundits of Facebook, many in the Tea party movement are giving up. Yes, I also write that I was resigning from the Republican party, but certainly not giving up.
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Here is one of Churchill's speeches which I think fits this occasion:
We in the tea party movement are like the British. We need to go on to the end. We need to defend our island, the island of the Constitution, the island of the Founding Fathers."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!"
Audios of Churchill
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—House of Commons, 4 June 1940, following the evacuation of British and French armies from Dunkirk as the German tide swept through France.
"This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."We must never give in. Yes our enemies are strong, some can say they are overwhelming. We are fighting the 47% and the mainstream media, but we can do it, if we "Never Give In"
—HarrowSchool, 29 October 1941. It is commonly believed that Churchillstood up, gave the three-word speech, "Never give in!," and sat down. This is incorrect, as is the suggestion, variously reported, that the speech occurred at Oxford or Cambridge. It was on his first visit to his old school, Harrow, where he would continue to return for the annual "Songs," making his last appearance in 1961.
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