“Success is the result of making many mistakes and learning from experience.”
Winston Churchill
You do your worst—and we will do our best (Primary source)
Churchill’s defiant July 1941 oration rallied London’s battered civil defenders, pledging reciprocal retribution against Nazi terror while celebrating Britain’s unconquerable spirit amid the gathering storm of total war.
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“Many new arrangements are being contrived as a result of the hard experience through which we have passed and the many mistakes which no doubt we have made—for success is the result of making many mistakes and learning from experience.”
Winston Churchill
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