Good Advice...When Times are Tough

2026 "Marks 80 years since the end of

struggling to understand and adjust to recent dramatic changes

in our Democracy. We might do well to view some of Churchill's

now-famous sayings to motivate ourselves to continue

'the good fight' against fear and for the life of our Nation."

“We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.”

“Never give in. 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 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”

“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”

(NOTE: Sometimes we can be inspired by a person we admire, in spite of those person's shortcomings. Churchill had his, among which was an outspoken prejudice against Muslims.)

Sir Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during WWII, from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was responsible for military decisions, AND took on the responsibility of keeping up the morale of British citizens as they endured wartime hardships, and the very real fear that their country might cease to exist.