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Originally Posted by Chock

There is no doubt that Churchill was very clever in what he wrote with regard to speeches, particularly in the early stages of the war when he was trying to court sympathy from the US, as well as keep the war going in the face of many in his own Government who were keen to appease Hitler. And there is no doubt that he wasn't averse to bending the truth to suit his purposes either. But there is also no doubt that history has borne him out in his assessment of the wisdom of prosecuting the war against Nazism in the face of many calls for appeasement too.

You see what I did there by the way? I used one of Winston's favourite speech techniques by repeating things three times in my comment:rotfl: that's almost a standard technique these days for speech writers. You can learn a lot from his stuff!

Chock

If he said it three times shouldn't we attribute it to Goebbles?

Just kidding.

It's funny, that if you look at 1950's style "Hard Sell" training, the repeating things three times is always part of the approach. Compare this with modern "Consultative Selling" where the assumptino is the less you say the better.

Another good one I forgot about is the the "better than 1 guilty man going free" quote which is often attributed to Lenin/Dzerzchinky, but actually comes from Gladstone I believe.