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The phrase "blood, toil, tears and sweat" became famous in a speech given by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 13 May 1940. The speech is sometimes known by that name.
It was the third of three speeches which he gave during the period of the Battle of France, after the "Blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech of 13 May and the "We shall fight on the beaches" speech of 4 June. [1] [2] "This was their finest hour" was made after France had sought an armistice on the evening of 16 June. [a]
This was the second of three major speeches given around the period of the Battle of France; the others are the "Blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech of 13 May 1940, and the "This was their finest hour" speech of 18 June 1940. Events developed dramatically over the five-week period, and although broadly similar in themes, each speech addressed ...
Churchill's wartime speeches were a great inspiration to the embattled British, beginning with his first as prime minister, which he had delivered to the Commons on 13 May: the "blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech. It was not well-received at the time, mainly because the majority of Conservative MPs held doubts about Churchill's suitability to ...
The original version had an initial 17 second excerpt of Winston Churchill's speech at the Mansion House, London on November 10, 1942, citing the words: "I have never promised anything but blood, toil, tears and sweat". [4] [5] Due to copyright issues, however, this had to be omitted from subsequent album pressings.
Churchill's "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech in Commons. 14 May 1940 (): The creation of the Local Defence Volunteers (the Home Guard) is announced by the new Secretary of State for War Anthony Eden. It is mostly composed of the elderly and retired. Churchill asks President Roosevelt and Canada for aid in these dark days. Outlines of the ...
A record-setting heat blast that swept across the Midwest this week has been made worse by the region's vast fields of cornstalks. Through a natural process commonly called "corn sweat," water ...
Winston Churchill gives a series of famous speeches in Parliament: "Blood, toil, tears, and sweat", "We shall fight on the beaches" and "This was their finest hour." [7] 7 May 1940 The debate on the recent military failure in Norway leads (on 10 May) to Chamberlain's resignation. 10 May 1940