Once, Winston Churchill was the voice of England, the defender of “the island race“. My parents, who grew up in Britain, remembered hearing him on the radio during the Blitz. They told me that, more than anything else, it was his lion’s heart (and his lion’s roar) that gave the sturdy people of that battered and isolated kingdom the strength, in their darkest hour, to go on alone against overwhelming odds.
Churchill was also one of the greatest masters of the English language ever to lift a pen, and devoted his long literary life to the story of his ancient homeland and people. His crowning achievement, his incomparable six-volume history of the Second World War, rightly earned him the Nobel Prize.
When Churchill died in 1965 at the age of 91, the English-speaking world wept. At the time of his death he was considered by many, if not nearly all, of the British people to be the greatest Englishman who ever lived.
Quoting Winston Churchill in public can now get you arrested. Story here.
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