Raise the Glorious Flags
On this critical Election
Day in the UK, I was given this paragraph from Winston Churchill’s
autobiography by Historian (and entrepreneur at Oxford’s Foundry) Judson Alphin
(thank you Jud). Oh, what I’d give for a
leader like Churchill today.
Here are some thoughts on
inspiring a bunch of young adults to become the best they can be; to Dream, to
Move, to Dare to Risk.
Thank you Winston (and
Jud).
“Come on now all you young men, all over the world. You have not an hour
to lose. You must take your places in Life’s fighting line. Twenty to
twenty-five! These are the years! Don’t be content with things as they are.
‘The earth is yours and the fulness thereof.’ Enter upon your inheritance,
accept your responsibilities. Raise the glorious flags again, advance them upon
the new enemies, who constantly gather upon the front of the human army, and
have only to be assaulted to be overthrown. Don’t take No for an answer. Never
submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or
acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are
generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously
distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and
thrived only by repeated subjugations.”
KR