...Administration. After reporting the progress which had been made in filling the various offices, I said: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." In all our long history no Prime Minister had ever been able to present to Parliament and the nation...

...Africa, and the Middle East when they were introduced into the United States. So, when Winston Churchill said, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat," in his first address to the House of Commons as prime minister, he might just have been reciting the...

...thought he was employing silence as a rhetorical device. He was trying not to hyperventilate. Later he said, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." He adored alliteration. There's hardly a sentence he wrote that doesn't swoon in sound. Handsome 291 Loud...

...British people's confidence in themselves, but he understood that optimism must be tempered with realism. He said, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." In truth, he had a great deal more to offer, but he was saying, as all great leaders must, that it...

...several years in the 19505. * Churchill was known for his fine oratory. When he became prime minister, he said, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." Concerning the British airmen who fought in the Battle of BRITAIN, he said, "Never in the field of...

...it was never good news for anyone at sea. But drama on the island was rare and hard to dislike. "Who said, 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat'?" Andrew called back to her. "Andrew!"Elin said."It hasn't been fifteen minutes and I'm not done studying!"...

...during WORLD WAR II, inspired the ALLIES to organize against HITLER. When he became prime minister, he said, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." Cold War Between WORLD WAR II and the 1980s, a state of tension and military rivalry existed between...

...Quintilian. "BLOOD, sweat, and tears." During his first speech as prime minister, in 1940, Winston Churchill said, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." In time our memory rearranged his words to "blood, sweat, and tears." This phrase had a distinguished...

...sails for England. Meanwhile, that afternoon, Churchill addresses the House of Commons. Declaring, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat," he describes what is to be his government's policy: "to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might...

...vote of confidence in the new Administration, at which Churchill used his famous historical phrase: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat". He ended his speech with: "you ask, what is our policy? I shall say, it is to wage war, by sea, land and...