Tag: "Winston Churchill"

Where There is Life There is Hope
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Where There is Life There is Hope

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal:  it is the courage to continue that counts” — Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill purchased that insight with dear experience.  I didn’t realize what a rollercoaster of Himalaya-highs and Death-Valley-lows his life was until I listened to The Teaching Company lecture series Churchill by J. Rufus Fears.  The […]

When Winston Warned America: Churchill's "Iron Curtain" at 65
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When Winston Warned America: Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” at 65

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It was 65 years ago, March 5, 1946, when Winston Churchill delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, Missouri. It was a speech that rocked the world and changed history. By then, Churchill was no longer British prime minister. He and his conservatives had been replaced by Clement Attlee and the Labour Party, which busily nationalized […]