Quotes About Courage

Churchill's post-war bodyguard, Ron Golding, who was an RAF squadron leader in 1940, recalled, 'After those speeches, we wanted the Germans to come.

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Paul Nash's 1941 painting The Battle of Britain

Me dicen que hay algunos individuos a los que es preciso aislar por la comisión de viles agresiones. De ser así, solo tengo que manifestar una cosa: "¡Adelante!". Si un hombre público permitiera que la simple amenaza de la violencia personal alterara el rumbo de sus planes sería indigno de la más mínima muestra de respeto o confianza».55

Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts

not to threaten to resign unless one is prepared to go into the wilderness.

Andrew Roberts

Churchill insisted that the Government stayed in Whitehall throughout the Blitz. 'Mr Churchill took the view', recorded Thompson, 'that it was essential that they took at least the same chances as the remainder of the population of London.

True heroism consists of being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge to the combat.' Napoleon on board HMS Northumberland, 1815

I have ruined, perhaps, my political career. But that is a little matter; I have retained something which is to me of great value Ã¢â'¬â€œ I can still walk about the world with my head erect.'235 'My dear Duff,' Churchill wrote to him, 'Your speech was one of the finest Parliamentary performances I have ever heard. It was admirable in form, massive in argument and shone with courage and public spirit.'236

He privately remarked that Boothby 'should join a bomb disposal squad as the best way of rehabilitating himself in the eyes of his fellow men. After all, the bombs might not go off.'133 It sounded cruel, but that is much what he himself had done in 1915, when the six-week average life-expectancy for new officers on the Western Front was not dissimilar to that of bomb-disposal squads in the Second World War.

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.

THE STORM OF WAR A NEW HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

There is something rather wonderful about the fact that, at a particularly perilous point in a war for the continued independent existence of the nation, the British Prime Minister could be upbraided by his wife for being short tempered; we can be fairly certain that no one was saying this to Churchill's opposite number in the Reich Chancellery.

take it.' London could take anything. My heart goes

More battles are lost by loss of hope than loss of blood.

How few men are strong enough to stand against the prevailing currents of opinion!

I have never been seduced by prosperity; adversity shall find me superior to its blows.'79

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The calm sea was the miracle of Dunkirk.

The future is a matter of contempt for those with courage. - Napoleon Bonaparte.

They looked like scarecrows,' Slim said of his troops. 'But they looked like soldiers, too.' He also recalled the heart-rending sight of a four-year-old child in Imphal trying to spoon-feed her dead mother from a tin of evaporated milk.

Paralyzing fear. Nothing for you to worry about.