The Churchill Factor

[basquebromance]

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat,” Winston Churchill told the House of Commons in his first speech as prime minister. In 1940, Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany, but Churchill promised his country and the world that the British people would “never surrender.” He rallied Great Britain to a resolute resistance and expertly orchestrated FDR and Joseph Stalin into an alliance that crushed the Axis. In 1953, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II becoming Sir Winston Churchill.

Churchill died on this in 1965


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[DOTR]

The Kenyan president removed the bust from the Oval Office and replaced it with one of King.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

It's back.

 

[Weatherman2020]

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat,” Winston Churchill told the House of Commons in his first speech as prime minister. In 1940, Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany, but Churchill promised his country and the world that the British people would “never surrender.” He rallied Great Britain to a resolute resistance and expertly orchestrated FDR and Joseph Stalin into an alliance that crushed the Axis. In 1953, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II becoming Sir Winston Churchill.

Churchill died on this in 1965


https://www.history.com/news/10-thi...form=twitter&postid=sf116373531&sf116373531=1

Churchill is likely the best leader in modern history. He stood by what he believed, even if it cost him politically.

For example the 30’s he kept insisting Hitler was going to be trouble and the Brits must build defense. In post WW1 nobody wanted to hear it, even his own party and he was shunned. Known as the “Wilderness Years”

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Churchill was a twat.

 

[waltky]

I regret that I have but one life..

... to give for my country!

 

[Weatherman2020]

Churchill was a twat.

Churchill hated socialists and Commies, so you would think that.

 

[DOTR]

Churchill was a twat.

To you he is a foreign leader.

 

[whitehall]

Actually it was "blood, toil sweat and tears". It was Churchill's first speech after being elected Prime Minister after Chamberlain's capitulation to the Nazis. Wouldn't you know the Brits would kick out the old War Horse after the war was won. In a speech (of all places) in Missouri in 1945 Churchill coined the phrase "The Iron Curtain" to characterize the Cold War.