Heroes or Skunks
Hence, we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks. This quote is often accompanied by an audio clip which does not sound like Churchill. My assumption is that he may have written it but the speech was delivered by someone else on the radio. Is there any source of this quote or possible misquote? It is used regularly by the Greeks during Oxi Day celebrations and would be wonderful to find a source either way. —M.A., via email You’re right. It’s some actor. (See “One-Man Churchill Plays”.) I cannot track that quotation, but it may be a bowdlerization of something Churchill said about fighting the Italians.…