An allusion rather than a quote --- My guess is that 'toil' is a difficult word to remember as it has no obvious cognates (it comes from Latin 'tudicula' machine for crushing olives and by extension, to stir up), so Pons is alluding to Churchill's speech here rather than quoting it directly. Also, the tricolon is easier to remember and trips off the tongue more readily than Churchill's original. I'm definitely OK with EGP's version, but can see why it might prove irksome ('irk' = 'annoyed' from Old Norse yrkja ‘to work’

Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu