Once upon a time, there were real leaders. Not puppets.
When Winston Churchill became UK Prime Minister on 13th May 1940, Britain faced its greatest challenge – the reasonable certainty of invasion of the British Isles and highly probable defeat and subjugation by the Nazis (1).
When Winston Churchill became UK Prime Minister on 13th May 1940, Britain faced its greatest challenge – the reasonable certainty of invasion of the British Isles and highly probable defeat and subjugation by the Nazis (1).
Had Churchill been a 21st Century politician facing uncertainty, he’d have chosen the language of fear. Instead he allayed the Nation (and the World’s) worst fears by speaking only of the coming hardships and the certainty of victory (2).
“We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all our strength that God can give us: (3)
“to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. This is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. Victory – victory at all costs, victory is spite of all terror,” (4)
“victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realized; no survival for the British Empire; no survival for all that the British Empire had stood for,…” (5)
“no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards it goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men” (6).
Sir Winston Churchill House of Commons 13th May 1940.
Sir Winston Churchill House of Commons 13th May 1940.
Where are the global leaders who will replace 2021 COVID-19 fearspeak with Churchillian eloquence and his certainty of ultimate victory (for the righteous)? (7)
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