The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College

Hillsdale & Statesmanship

The study of statesmanship is central to the teaching mission of Hillsdale College, and the classics teach that the art can be best understood by studying those who have a reputation for it.

Why Churchill?

Churchill’s career presents an unsurpassed opportunity for the study of statesmanship, for he faced the great crises of the twentieth century and left behind one of the richest records of human undertaking.

Churchill & Hillsdale

Hillsdale College will promote a proper account of this record by combining the College’s educational expertise with its work both as publisher of Churchill’s Official Biography and as the repository of the Martin Gilbert papers.

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Your generous support will build an endowment to fund national conferences, student scholarships, a faculty chair, and the completion and publication of The Official Biography of Winston Churchill.

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“Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.”

—U.S. Congress, Washington, 26 December 1941
“We welcome any country where the people own the Government, and not the Government the people.”

—The Hague, Netherlands, 7 May 1948
"There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the White Ant.”

—“Mass Effects in Modern Life,” July 1927
“In war, Resolution. In defeat, Defiance. In victory, Magnanimity. In peace, Goodwill.”

—My Early Life, 1930
“We must always be ready to make sacrifices for the great causes; only in that way shall we live to keep our souls alive.”

—Oslo, 12 May 1948
“We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.”

—On rebuilding the House of Commons, 28 October 1943
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

—Story of the Malakand Field Force, 1898
“All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: Freedom; Justice; Honor; Duty; Mercy; Hope.”

—Albert Hall, London, 14 May 1947
“For myself I am an optimist—it does not seem to be much use being anything else—and I cannot believe that the human race will not find its way through the problems that confront it….”

—Guildhall, London, 9 November 1954
“The distinction between politics and strategy diminishes as the point of view is raised. At the summit true politics and strategy are one.”

—The World Crisis, vol. 2, 1923
“A man’s Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action.”

—My Early Life, 1930
“Nations which went down fighting rose again, but those which surrendered tamely were finished.”

—War Cabinet meeting, 28 May 1940

Recent Articles

Apr

Winston Churchill: A Passion for Painting – by Edwina Sandys

Sandys describes her grandfather’s paintings with four characteristics, which she also applies to his approach to life: bold, irrepressible, loving of life, and inspiring.

Posted in: Books,

Apr

Winston Churchill the Racist War Criminal

“It will always be a mystery why a few bombastic speeches have been enough to wash the bloodstains off Churchill’s racist hands.” This was how Shashi Tharoor, a successful and popular Indian politician, concluded his recent op-ed for The Washington Post. Tharoor began his piece with the sensational claim that Churchill was a mass murderer in the vein of Hitler and Stalin. One would expect such statements to have a mountain of evidence behind them. There is a mountain of evidence on these and similar issues, but from even the briefest expedition up the slopes one will see Tharoor’s arguments for what they are – revisionist, manufactured history.

Posted in: Truths and Heresies,

Apr

Great Contemporaries: Bill Slim and his Heroic Indian Army

Among British generals, Slim ranks with Wellington. His courageous Indian, African and British troops earned Winston Churchill’s highest accolades.

Posted in: Explore,