Never Give In

By
Jerry Bowyer
TCSDaily.com

"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or
small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour
and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently
overwhelming might of the enemy."

-Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 1941, Harrow School

Check the date, Churchill was speaking during the depths of the Nazi
onslaught. And he was speaking to school children. The quote above is
the text of his entire commencement speech to those boys. He rose,
stepped to the podium, uttered those two sentences and sat down. Few
people could have gotten away with that.

As I hear about the death knell of conservatism, I'm reminded of
Churchill. He won WWII, and then lost the next election to a Fabian
socialist named Clement Atlee. Brits had become tired of risk, tired of
war, tired of privation and so they gave the reins to a man of the
left. Atlee began to commandeer large swaths of the economy. In fact,
my favorite Churchill story is the one about the time that Churchill
was standing at the urinal in the men's room of the House of Commons.
Atlee came into the room and stood at the urinal next to Winston's.
Churchill looked up at him, zipped up, moved a couple of urinals
farther down and resumed his business. "Why Winston, I had no idea you
were so modest.", said Atlee. "It's not modesty, Prime Minister. It's
only that every time you find something that is large and functions
well, you try to nationalize it, and I thought it best not to take a
chance!".

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