[shotdog]

Someone asked me years ago who I thought was the greatest figure of the twentieth century. My answer was hands down, Winston Churchill. And that from a Yank. Towering leader, awesome author and credible artist. Who better? Anyone? sd

[rlmorel]

"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.'

In my opinion, one of the greatest orations of all time. Gives me goosebumps to read it.

[Hardraade]

And the left hated him so much they could hardly wait till after the war with kicking him out.

Now, their bronze statue of him is in a straitjacket.

They all need guillotined. And their heads on pikes.

[rlmorel]

Churchill recognized the communists for exactly what they were. FDR (that piece of crap) thought it would be okay to deal with them.

Joseph McCarthy knew exactly the extent of the communist infiltration into our government, particularly the FDR and Truman administrations.

I have always felt that McCarthy had a source feeding him Venona information.