Sunday, September 20, 2020

Beers . . .

. . .  from tears

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood,_toil,_tears_and_sweat#:~:text=Churchill's%20sentence%2C%20%22I%20have%20nothing,man%2C%20Churchill%20had%20considered%20writing)
". . . Churchill's sentence, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat," has been called a paraphrase of one uttered on 2 July 1849 by Giuseppe Garibaldi when rallying his revolutionary forces in Rome: "I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battle, and death." As a young man, Churchill had considered writing a biography of Garibaldi. The circumstances under which Garibaldi made that speech—with the revolutionary Roman Republic being overwhelmed and Garibaldi needing to maintain the morale of his troops towards a highly hazardous retreat through the Apennine mountains—was in some ways comparable to Britain's situation with France being overwhelmed by the German offensive. . ."




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