13 May 1940 A.D. Churchill: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat” against the “monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable cataloque of human crime”
13 May 1940 A.D. Churchill: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat” against the “monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable cataloque of human crime” Editors. “Churchill announces: `I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” History.com. 2009. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/churchill-announces-i-have-nothing-to-offer-but-blood-toil-tears-and-sweat . Accessed 12 May 2015. On this day in 1940, as Winston Churchill takes the helm as Great Britain’s new prime minister, he assures Parliament that his new policy will consist of nothing less than “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, lamentable catalogue of human crime.” Emphasizing that Britain’s aim was simply “victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of terror, victory however long and hard the road may be.” That very...