I don’t think Sir Winston Churchill had anything to do with these statements. They are a contemporary recasting of Rudyard Kipling’s noted poem “If”. It’s a lovely film but I wonder where the notion came from these are Churchill’s words. The internet’s quoting habits are going to cause future historians some scholarly headaches.
I don’t think Sir Winston Churchill had anything to do with these statements. They are a contemporary recasting of Rudyard Kipling’s noted poem “If”. It’s a lovely film but I wonder where the notion came from these are Churchill’s words. The internet’s quoting habits are going to cause future historians some scholarly headaches.
Jul 28th, 2020 / 7:25 am
The poem seems to come from
https://www.all-creatures.org/aro/p-ifyoucan.html
There is no mention of this poem on Churchill’s site or when googling his poetry.
Jul 28th, 2020 / 8:07 pm