No twentieth-century British Prime Minister ever came closer to assassination.
At an annual Conservative Party conference in Brighton, 1984, the Irish Republican Army attempted to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet by bombing her hotel.
While Thatcher obviously survived without injury, some of her closest colleagues were either injured or dead. It came so close to killing her that the adjoining room suffered severe damage.
Of course most of us won't be faced with this type of opposition and hatred, yet it does speak to keeping our resolve when facing difficult circumstances.
