30 October 2014

Never , never, never, give in

***  Some years ago I met a man who was a student when Sir Winston Churchill gave this speech...

He was a great thinker, a Christian and a man of Honor...  Yet our present President had Churchill's - Bust removed from the White House after he got into office --   
 ***   just maybe he should have read up on the man - he could have learned something ....

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"Never Give In"

"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."
Sir Winston Churchill
—Harrow School, 29 October 1941.

It is commonly believed that Churchill stood 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.

But it was actually given upon his first visit in 1941,  to his old school, Harrow, where he would continue to return for the annual "Songs," assembly meeting making his last appearance in 1961.

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 No matter what you think of Sir Winston - he was a great human leader..... 


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