All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
The Fat Man is a big fan of Boris and had sent me some links on him. I found this one and thought some who are fans of Winston Churchill might enjoy this.
Boris Johnson is not also a politician. He is a scholar and an author and an amazing orator. This talk is a lecture about Churchill in support of Johnson’s book on Churchill.
Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Winston Churchill
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
The Man in the Arena as it is called, is part of a speech called Citizenship in a Republic made by Theodore Roosevelt in Paris, France on April 23, 1910. It’s well known but well worth requoting.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.
Winston Churchill
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
Winston Churchill
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Winston Churchill
Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.
Winston Churchill