Mr.
Churchill is more often fighting himself than his enemies.
His health has been against him: his heart and his lungs have not given him the support he needs for his adventurous and stormy career.

At times, when every man's hand has seemed to be against him, he has had to fight desperately with both body and mind to keep his place in the firing line.

Some of his friends have seen him in a state of real weakness, particularly of physical weakness, and for myself I have never once found him in a truculent or self-satisfied frame of mind.

I believe he is at heart a modest man, and I am quite certain he is a delicate and a suffering man.

But for the devotion of his wife I think he could not have held his place so long.
Fate, too, has opposed him.