Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

For several decades now, I have been a "Churchillian". In other words, I am an admirer of Britain's greatest Prime Minister in the 20th Century.

In fact, England has never had a Prime Minister as popular or as dynamic as this man from the 19th Century. Winston Churchill was born into an illustrious lineage. His dad was Randolph Churchill, who himself was a man of means and some political clout.

Churchill was a product of some of England's most prestigious institutions of learning. At an early age, he joined the Royal Scots Fusilliers. In his military career, Churchill gained battle experience in Sudan, South Africa and India.

Then he later went on to become a war correspondent and gained fame from his writings to some of the notable English dailies.
What propelled Churchill to the stratosphere of national prominence was his speeches in his career as an aspiring politician and later as the Prime Minister of Britain during the Second World War.

Churchill's war speeches became the stuff of history. One of the most famous quotes about Churchill was "he mobilised the English language and took it to war." The man who said it was right indeed.

Today, there are numerous books on Churchill's speeches. The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches is a compilation of some of his most memorable words ever spoken.

I have long admired Winston Churchill's affinity with words English. He could fire the imagination of his audience in an instant and aroused their passions with a few choice words.

For example, "I have nothing to offer, except blood, toil, sweat and tears." And "we shall fight in the hills, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the streets, we shall never surrender!"

Even today about half a century after his death, Churchill's stirring words echoed across his motherland and sometimes across the globe. What made a man like Churchill so special?

Perhaps it could be his romantic attachment to battles, the smell of gunpowder, the wave of human emotions attached to inexorable human will to survive, the passion to excel and exceed beyond all expectations that brought out all those words from his awesome library of English words to the fore.

Whatever it was that excited Churchill, it cannot be denied that his speeches will long be remembered for their power to galvanise a nation to take up arms and fight victoriously against overwhelming odds.

It was Churchill who steered a frightened nations to the shores of victory in Normandy in the final months of the war. It was this "English bulldog" who bit off more than he chew and then startled his adversaries by biting off some more.

Churchill's speeches have to be read, ponder over and than digested for their full effect. Long after all of us have spent our limited time on earth, the shadow of Winston Churchill will continue to loom over England in the form of the printed word.

People not only in England but elsewhere are constantly in need of motivation, inspiration and celebration. In Churchill's speeches, they find all they need and more.