If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you

if you can wait and not be tired by waiting 

or being hated, dont give way to hating

if you can fill the unforgiving minute

with sixty seconds worth of distance run 

yours is the Earth and everything thats in it,

And- which is more-youll be a Man, my son! 

By that measure these were the years when Churchill the man first rose to greatness.