Here is an excellent article, by Mark Steyn, on Ed Begley's "pier review" meltdown last week on Fox.

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YjAxYz...

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

Sir Winston Churchill

A reminder of a time when being larger than life meant something other than dropping your trousers on reality TV and then crying about it later. For those who care to know, read Manchester's two book "The Last Lion" series. It does not even touch on WWII and paints a picture of a person who never voted present. Or, if you like a good fist hand history of WWII, get Churchill's own "The Second World War."

Both are unforgettable.

People forget that, though he was born British, he was also an American son. Apparently it was not a bad pedigree, and the world can be thankful for that.

Lazy Jack

http://www.thanksforthelaughs.wordpress.com

Another good Churchill book is "The Boer War". It is a compilation of 2 books that he wrote while serving as a war correspondent for the "Morning Post". Those 2 books were published in 1900 when Churchill was just 25 years old. He is an incredible wordsmith.

We must be courageous. This man reminds me that is our only path to victory. How unlike a more recent Churchill he is.

Lady Nancy Astor: If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!

Churchill: And if I were your husband I would drink it!

My favorite Churchill quote: "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."

I use that quote over and over again to young people when I try to describe the difference between liberals and conservatives. I usually find that once they have a real job, and have to pay real taxes, they shift right.

Churchill could've used it!

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One more–

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

I heard another one went something like:

Woman: "Mr. Churchill, you're DRUNK!"

Winston: "Yes Madam, but in the morning I will be sober. You will still be ugly."

Classic

Here is my all time favorite Churchill quote:
"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can."
~ Winston Churchill ~

It brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Grin and bear it"……….

If our military gets Osama, will Obamanable be the hero? Churchill didn’t rise up to address the Hitler and Mussolini problem; he waited for us to save his ass. Churchill, with the permission of FDR, withheld fuel, supplies and men from Patton and our advancing troops so that Montgomery could save face. Churchill, like FDR, withheld the truth by censoring the press. Mistakes were made before with the Chamberlain regime, but Churchill exacerbated the problem of weakness and delay until the fight was in his yard – just like FDR waited for Pearl Harbor. MacArthur should have been president, and Churchill and Montgomery should be disgraced. This is the real history!

You made me have to go and look it up.
Thanks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lXsbn5LCzQ

I thin he probably would have moved to America.

Thanks for the link–I love that speech. Here's more of the "Finest Hour" speech. Very interesting. Churchill speaks from the grave–

"During the first four years of the last war the Allies experienced nothing but disaster and disappointment. That was our constant fear: one blow after another, terrible losses, frightful dangers. Everything miscarried. And yet at the end of those four years the morale of the Allies was higher than that of the Germans, who had moved from one aggressive triumph to another, and who stood everywhere triumphant invaders of the lands into which they had broken. During that war we repeatedly asked ourselves the question: 'How are we going to win?' And no one was able ever to answer it with much precision, until at the end, quite suddenly, quite unexpectedly, our terrible foe collapsed before us, and we were so glutted with victory that in our folly we threw it away.

We do not yet know what will happen in France or whether the French resistance will be prolonged, both in France and in the French Empire overseas. The French Government will be throwing away great opportunities and casting adrift their future if they do not continue the war in accordance with their treaty obligations, from which we have not felt able to release them. The House will have read the historic declaration in which, at the desire of many Frenchmen–and of our own hearts–we have proclaimed our willingness at the darkest hour in French history to conclude a union of common citizenship in this struggle. However matters may go in France or with the French Government, or other French Governments, we in this Island and in the British Empire will never lose our sense of comradeship with the French people. If we are now called upon to endure what they have been suffering, we shall emulate their courage, and if final victory rewards our toils they shall share the gains, aye, and freedom shall be restored to all. We abate nothing of our just demands; not one jot or tittle do we recede. Czechs, Poles, Norwegians, Dutch, Belgians have joined their causes to our own. All these shall be restored.

What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.' (RealAudio :22)

Winston Churchill – June 18, 1940"

Sadly, we're heading in a direction where we're not much better.

Today, in 1874, Winston Churchill was born. (There is no way we can improve on that sentence.)

Fantastic.

Today, in 1874, Winston Churchill was born. (There is no way we can improve on that sentence.)

Well, at least not with what we have now.

For the story behind one of photography’s greatest portraits, by one of the craft’s masters, see:

http://www.karsh.org/#/the_work/portraits/winston_churchill/

What a dumb ass! Most of the deaths in World War II were caused by Adolf Hitler, either directly or indirectly!
Great men like Churchill and F.D.R.stood up to the enslavement of the free peoples in Europe by an evil despot. Churchill had nothing to do with the appeasement which led to Germany"s rapid build up. In fact Hitler had already taken Poland, Denmark, and Norway and was beginning his march on the Netherlands, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg on the way to France before Churchill became Prime Minister in May of 1940.
Hitler offered 'peace' to England and all he wanted from London was "a free hand in Europe". Many wanted to sell free Europe down the river, but Sir Winston reiterated Britain's "inflexible resolve to continue the war"
Churchill lit a fire in Brits which, as much as any single man, led to the push back, and ultimate destruction of Nazi aggression.

Excellent point. You are right, and for some reason, I forgot he did that, and today, see the signifigance in it.