Second quote of the day 15th February 2019

"No doubt the legend of his life will grow in the telling, but he was in fact often held in disdain by his political party, he was often defeated, he was often wrong. Certainly but generously wrong about the abdication of Edward VIII, probably wrong over India, possibly wrong over the Dardanelles. He was a lovable fallible man.

If the taxi that injured him so gravely in New York in 1931 had killed him, his life would ‘have been written as one of promise unfilled, one of the many that stopped short of greatness. But he lived to keep his tryst with destiny in 1940.

Nothing else weighs in the scale against that one colossal contribution to the cause of freedom everywhere. And again it must be proclaimed.

We live as free men, we speak as free men, we walk as free men because a man called Winston Churchill lived. Of no other man since time began can that be said. And, as we waited and prayed, there was nothing more to be said."

(Conclusion of a Spectator article about Winston Churchill which was published on 22nd January 1965, two days before Churchill died, and which you can read in full here.)

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