History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

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.