Sublime

What Eisenhower sensed was a fundamental resistance, particularly on Churchill’s part, to crossing the Channel under fire. Although the British had agreed “in principle” to an invasion of the Continent in the spring of 1943 (ROUNDUP), Churchill was never fully convinced.

It has been said that the difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.

“It is a strategic error to place oneself in a situation contradictory to the moral character of this war,” de Gaulle reminded Churchill.

One of our favorite examples of a good mission statement is Britain’s mission in 1940, as articulated by Winston Churchill: Our whole people and empire have vowed themselves to the single task of cleansing Europe of the Nazi pestilence and saving the world from the new dark ages. We seek to beat the life and soul out of Hitler and Hitlerism. That