You, your estates, your posterities lie all at the stake … if your professed enemies are admitted to witness against you; if every word, intention, and circumstance of yours be alleged as treasonable, not because of a statute, but a…
What is it about Sir Winston Churchill that so intimidates Democrat presidents? Perhaps it is the personal courage he showed in 1941 when he stood, almost alone, against the appeasers demanding peace with Hitler, and quite literally saved freedom. A…
Winston Churchill suffered his share of severe political defeat. More than once, he managed to recoup his strength and return to champion his concerns. In the mid-Thirties, his dominant concern was the growing danger of Hitler and the inadequate response…
I write only with my index finger. The other four are bandaged. The guy who invented child-resistant packaging must also own a Band-Aid company. I woke up with a severe headache and I hadn’t even read the papers yet. I…
“Why did so few heed Churchill’s warnings about Hitler in the 1930s?” A routine question, it snapped me back instantly to the best answer I ever heard. It was by Sir Alistair Cooke, the great journalist and broadcaster, at a…
On December 10, 1948, Winston Churchill rose to address Parliament. As Leader of the Opposition, he questioned why Clement Attlee’s Labour Government in general and of its Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, in particular, had refused to recognize the newborn Israeli…
Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft By Lewis E. Lehrman (Stackpole Books, 459 pages, $29. 95) When the world goes to war things fall apart. I do not know how often such a point is made in…