Churchill in 1943 on National Health Insurance and Taxation

Churchill believed medical advances were “the inheritance of all,” and advocated insurance against illness; he was also mindful of its cost to taxpayers.

On the Mayflower, 1620: “In the presence of God, and one of another, [we] covenant and combine ourselves…for our better ordering and preservation…”

Breathless media admiration of Hitler’s Anschluss obscured German military deficiencies that might have mattered if the democracies had stood firm.

Despite his encomiums to Joan, Churchill rated Napoleon higher, with Georges Clemenceau a close third—and, a bit farther down, de Gaulle.

Churchill’s affinity for scientific techniques, themes and writers significantly proclaims his openness toward the future—and its perils.

Churchill’s comments on the V1 reveal a rare quality: a genuine appreciation of enemy cleverness, albeit overwhelmed by “mass effects.”

Churchill’s imagination in engaging with science and its potential consequences enabled him to confront vast change between the Victorian and Atomic eras.

Wingate “lives on in the long-range penetration groups, and all these intricate and daring air and military operations.” —WSC

The Churchill Project provides descriptions of the twelve most significant locations in Whitehall, London as they relate to Winston Churchill.

Smith is clear that Churchill was a believer in a faith. And that faith was at the heart of his appeal to the British people in the Second World War.

The first chapter of Nigel Hamilton's book, The Mantle of Command, states that the Lusitania was an “ill-fated American liner.” He leaves the impression that Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, had played a role in the sinking in order to get the United States into World War I.

Churchill looked back on the past with reverence and with regularity—thankfully so, for we owe him the same debt we owe to our history: gratitude.