All who knew him had heard him recite, at one time or another, Macaulay’s Lays of Ancient Rome: Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate: “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods.” All who knew him came to know that in Churchill such sentiments were intrinsic.
