BLOOD, TOIL, TEARS AND SWEAT speech Winston Churchill

In his first speech to the House of Commons after having been offered the King’s commission to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Winston Churchill famously proclaimed: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalog of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs—Victory in spite of all terror—Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival. This speech was delivered on 13 May 1940, less than a month before another one of Churchill’s legendary speeches: WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER (We Shall