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These are the principal speeches I have made within the last fouryears. They have been chosen and collected with the idea of presentinga consistent and simultaneous view of the general field of Britishpolitics in an hour of fateful decision. I have exercised full freedomin compression and in verbal correction necessary to make them easierto read. Facts and figures have been, where necessary, revised,ephemeral matter eliminated, and epithets here and there reconsidered.But opinions and arguments are unaltered; they are hereby confirmed,and I press them earnestly and insistently upon the public.
We approach what is not merely a party crisis but a nationalclimacteric. Never did [viii]a great people enter upon a period of trialand choice with more sincere and disinterested desire to know thetruth and to do justice in their generation. I believe they willsucceed.
Winston S. Churchill.
33 Eccleston Square.
October 26, 1909.