Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

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.