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🗓️ 25 October 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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In this ninth episode of our series on Winston Churchill, we follow Churchill as he wins back his freedom after escaping from prison, only to find himself in the middle of the South African veld, hundreds of miles from true safety. We hope you enjoy!
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0:00.0 | And the Winston Churchill seemingly had a personal philosophy that was made up of just three little words. |
0:30.0 | And he relied on these three words when it came to making those difficult decisions that we all are often faced with. |
0:38.0 | And generally speaking, those decisions usually boil down to the question of, |
0:42.0 | do we take the path of least resistance and |
0:45.9 | gain little? Or do we take the harder route and potentially win big? Now this philosophy of Churchill's was one that he ripped off from a man named |
0:57.3 | Georg Jacques Dantone. Now Dantone was an early leader during the French Revolution and he would eventually lose his head |
1:06.2 | when it was chopped off in front of a large crowd when the blade of a guillotine dropped upon his |
1:11.7 | neck on April 5th of 1794. But it was a quote of Dantones that he had said during |
1:19.2 | the French Revolution that was eventually adopted by best in which became this sort of personal philosophy for him. |
1:27.0 | And that quote was, in my best French accent, of course, |
1:31.0 | quote, |
1:32.0 | I'll new foe de la d'as, encore de la das, tuzhore de la d' |
1:40.0 | translated we must dare, dare again, always daring, end quote. |
1:47.0 | And you might also have heard this quote translated as, |
1:51.0 | audacity, again audacity, always more audacity. |
1:57.0 | But either way you turn the phrase, |
1:59.1 | the meaning is quite clear in the world of Winston Churchill, |
2:03.2 | and that meaning is, have no fear, be bold and go for it, |
2:09.6 | pushed on by those three little words. |
2:13.0 | Always more audacity. |
2:16.0 | When we left off last episode, |
2:22.0 | Churchill had just climbed up and jumped over the fence that kept him a prisoner inside the Stats model school in Pretoria. He had been waiting in the lavatory alone, watching the bore guards through a crack in the wall, |
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