Blood, Toil, Sweat and
Tears
By Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
I now invite the House by a resolution to record
its approval of the step taken and declare its confidence in the
new government.
The resolution:
“That this House welcomes the formation of a
government representing the united and inflexible resolve of the
nation to prosecute the war with Germany to a victorious
conclusion.”
To form an administration of this scale and
complexity is a serious undertaking in itself. But we are in the
preliminary phase of one of the greatest battles in history. We are
in action at many other point—in Norway and in Holland—and we
have to be prepared in the Mediterranean. The air battle is
continuing, and many preparations have to be made here at
home.
In this crisis I think I may be pardoned if I do
not address the House at any length today, and I hope that any of
my friends and colleagues or former colleagues who are affected by
the political reconstruction will make all allowances for any lack
of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act.
I say to the House as I said to Ministers who
have joined this government, I have noting 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
months of struggle and suffering.
You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage
war by land, sea and air. War with all our might and with all the
strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous
tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of
human crime. That is our policy.
You ask, What is our aim?
I can answer in one word, It is victory！ Victory at all
costs—victory in spite of all terrors—victory, however long and
hard the road may be for without victory there is no
survival.
Let that be realized. No survival for British Empire, no survival
for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the
urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward
toward his goal.
I take up my task in buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause
will not be suffered to fail among men.
I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time,
to claim the aid of all and to say, “come then, let us go forward
together with our united strength.”
(责任编辑：admin) |