What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.

34051 Winston Churchill. In 1938 however under the terms of the Chamberlain-De Valera Anglo-Irish Trade Agreement the bases were returned to the Irish Free State. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD DL FRS Hon.

He then briefly resumed active army service on the Western Front as commander of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. His steadfast refusal to consider defeat surrender or a compromise peace helped inspire British resistance especially during the difficult early days of the War when Britain stood alone among European countries in its active opposition to Adolf Hitler. A noted statesman and orator Churchill was also an officer in the British Army a historian a writer and an artist.