One the last of a breed Sir Winston Churchill Studied, published, led, and fought to tell the truth in this wold! He is known for his intelligent views, tanasity and down right bull hearted fearlessness to pursue the truth at all costs...
An Englishman I met some years back, was present when Sir Winston Churchill gave his famous Never Give In, Never, Never, Never, speech October 29, 1941 - at the Harrow School.
He said that in the early 1950's, Sir Winston came to speak to the all male student body. Everyone had heard of the former PM - but now he was an old man and after an introduction; the following happened: He arose and simply said 'Young men, never give up. Never give up! Never give up!! Never, never, never-never-never-never your principles!' "
Then sat down!
Here is a historial note:
There's this famous story about Sir Winston Churchill, who near the end of his distinguished career was asked to return and speak at his old school, Harrow (where as a boy he'd almost flunked out)…
The great day finally arrived, and after the school's fanfare and acclamation Sir Winston stood to his feet, acknowledged the introduction, and gave the following address, which is quoted in full: 'Young men, never give up. Never give up! Never give up!! Never, never, never-never-never-never!'"
According to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the speech
was not delivered near the end of Churchill's career (he died in 1965),
but on October 29, 1941. And he wasn't Sir Winston till 1953. And what
he really said was, "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never,
never—in nothing, ...
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When Churchill visited Harrow on October 29 to hear the traditional songs again, he discovered that an additional verse had been added to one of them. It ran:
"Not less we praise in darker days
The leader of our nation,
And Churchill's name shall win acclaim
From each new generation.
For you have power in danger's hour
Our freedom to defend, Sir!
Though long the fight we know that right
Will triumph in the end, Sir!"
Almost a year has passed since I came down here at your Head Master's kind invitation in order to cheer myself and cheer the hearts of a few of my friends by singing some of our own songs.
The ten months that have passed have seen very terrible catastrophic events in the world - ups and downs, misfortunes - but can anyone sitting here this afternoon, this October afternoon, not feel deeply thankful for what has happened in the time that has passed and for the very great improvement in the position of our country and of our home?
Why, when I was here last time we were quite alone, desperately alone, and we had been so for five or six months. We were poorly armed. We are not so poorly armed today; but then we were very poorly armed. We had the unmeasured menace of the enemy and their air attack still beating upon us, and you yourselves have had experience of this attack; and I expect you are beginning to feel impatient that there has been this long lull with nothing particular turning up!
But we must learn to be equally good at what is short and sharp and what is long and tough.
It is generally said that the British are often better at the last. They do not expect to move from crisis to crisis; they do not always expect that each day will bring up some noble chance of war; but when they very slowly make up their minds that the thing has to be done and the job put through and finished, then, even if it takes months - if it takes years - they do it.
Another lesson I think we may take, just throwing our minds back to our meeting here ten months ago and now, is that appearances are often very deceptive, and as Kipling well says,
we must "...meet with Triumph and Disaster. And treat those two impostors just the same."
You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly, many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination. But for everyone, surely, what we have gone through in this period -
I am addressing myself to the School - surely from this period of ten months 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 stood all alone a year ago, and to many countries it seemed that our account was closed, we were finished.
All this tradition of ours, our songs, our School history, this part of the history of this country, were gone and finished and liquidated.
Very different is the mood today. Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate. But instead our country stood in the gap. There was no flinching and no thought of giving in; and by what seemed almost a miracle to those outside these Islands, though we ourselves never doubted it, we now find ourselves in a position where I say that we can be sure that we have only to persevere to conquer.
You sang here a verse of a School Song: you sang that extra verse written in my honour, which I was very greatly complimented by and which you have repeated today. But there is one word in it I want to alter - I wanted to do so last year, but I did not venture to. It is the line: "Not less we praise in darker days."
I have obtained the Head Master's permission to alter darker to sterner.
"Not less we praise in sterner days."
Do not let us speak of darker days: let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days; these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.
Winston Churchill
October 29, 1941
Harrow School
One of the last real statesmen to hold office in a Western country, Sir Winston Churchill, we find today sits in public school textbooks oddly silent about Islam – and yet they only teach that he apparently only had to say something about Nazism and Germany and nothing else –
not even anything about Colonialism, about the British Empire or the US Civil War – subjects that he studied and wrote whole volumes about.
{Read his account of the " River War " In Sudan And Africa in the late 1800's to early 1900's.}
The reason is that the Left wishes to keep it that way in the public eye because of what he had to say on the subject of Islam from a first-hand experience perspective and not from some standpoint of “feel good”, “peace forever” or “let’s all hold hands and embrace diversity” myopic and cheesy nonsense with which the Left brainwashes your kids in the Neo-Communist schools.
Diversity is defeat and disaluasion, after all, just a powerful fluff-word used to cover the spiritual emptiness of the intellectually barren Left in control of all the Western societies at present. It is applied for the purpose of suppressing any dissent, which is thus shamed into silence. The false diversity appreciation symbol of the Left denotes the cheap equivalence of everything culturally inherited because “an eye altering [the picture] – alters all” (William Blake) meaning that the materialist and atheist vision of the Left cares nothing for the substance of inherited values and beliefs so it can afford to make them all look equivalent to each other, using the weapon of ignorance in the 21st century.
SIr Winston Churchill wrote: “…But the Mahommedan {Islamic} religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside. The more emotional Pathans {Who are the Pathans? They are also called Afghans or Pishtus after their language. They identify themselves with their former name ‘sons of Israel’, even though nowadays they live as Muslims. In Afghanistan they are said to number six to seven million, and in Pakistan seven to eight million. Two million of them live as beduins. Outwardly, the Pathans are similar to the Jews.} are powerless to resist.
All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis { a Muslim soldier, esp. one fighting against non-Muslims.} — as dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such. While the more generous spirits among the tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious bloodthirstiness, poorer and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of others, with the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting.
Thus whole nations are roused to arms.
Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Sudan break the British squares {During the Sudan wars}, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far and wide. In each case, civilization is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace.” —
Sir Winston Churchill
** We of the Western Culture and Christian persuasion must consider and heed this warning or else become mooslim slaves at best or completely eliminated from the earth at worse!
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