http://localhost:8080/fiction-continues Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:05:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/fiction-continues#comment-30392 Mon, 22 Jul 2019 21:57:25 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=8615#comment-30392 You write: “In referring to an earlier author Churchill was perhaps thinking of Dr. Samuel Johnson. ‘Sir, you know courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.'” We can see the ancestry of this idea in Cicero as well and other authors but Churchill’s is closest to Johnson and yes, his paraphrase polishes and improves upon the original idea. That is an aspect of Churchill’s literary talent. He understood the idea and communicated it in a euphonious and often original way.

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