“No one left…without feeling a braver man.”
I’m searching for a quote about William Pitt, used also about Churchill in 1940: something like, “No one left his presence who did not feel braver,” but more eloquent. —M.M., Indiana
The quote about Pitt is from the 30 May 1940 diary of John Martin, one of Churchill’s private secretaries, first published in Martin Gilbert’s Official Biography, Winston S. Churchill, vol. VI, Finest Hour 1939-1941 (London: Heinemann, 1983), 435-36:
During May 30 [1940] Desmond Morton sent Churchill a seven page note by the Australian High Commissioner in London, Stanley Bruce, arguing, in one of its paragraphs, in favour of an international conference “to formulate a peace settlement.”…
