For Want of a Nail
Story★★★★For want of a nail, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, a General was lost. For want of a General, a battle was lost. For want of a battle, a war was lost. For want of a war, a nation was lost. And all for the want of a nail. 1 William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winsto,1 Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988), 148. 2 Brian White, “Wife’s Death Gives Shula New Focus,” USA Today, 9 July 1991, sec. 3C. 3 Charles Spurgeon, Lectures To My Students (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1954), 287.
3Charles Spurgeon, Lectures To My Students (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1954), 287.
The point
The traditional poem demonstrating how the loss of a single nail cascades into the loss of a nation, illustrating the principle that small details matter.