Lincoln, Roosevelt, Churchill...Obama?

From the memoirs of Winston Churchill.

From the memoirs of Winston Churchill, on the Yalta Conference.

Churchill gave Britons something to look forward to victory.

Actual power at the Admiralty was held by George Churchill, whose elder brother was John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, a great friend of Anne's and the captain general of English land forces.

Political leadership at such a moment demands a Churchillian accent.

Churchill resigned from the British Army effective from 5 May 1899.

On 12 November, Churchill returned to the topic.

Pressure grew to replace Admiral Churchill with someone more dynamic.

He was among the first British troops into Ladysmith and Pretoria.

Wars, as Winston Churchill defined them, are always a catalogue of blunders.

On 15 September 1922, the Churchills' last child, Mary, was born.

This theory appeared in the press within days of the incident, and is supported by Churchill himself.

Churchill died in Winter Park, Florida in 1947.

Winston Churchill once said, War is too serious a business for generals.

The villa was rebuilt within the museum in 1985 with a gallery of Churchill paintings and memorabilia.

Prelude On 10 May 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Winston Churchill often attributed his success to his mastery of the English sentence.

Churchill had fond memories of Cuba as a ... large, rich, beautiful island ... .

Roosevelt initially supported this plan, and managed to convince Churchill to support it in a less drastic form.

In 1908, he introduced the Trade Boards Bill setting up the first minimum wages in Britain.

After leaving the premiership, Churchill spent less time in parliament until he stood down at the 1964 general election.

Marlborough wrote to his brother telling him to resign, but Churchill refused, protected by Prince George.

Aftermath Fall of Singapore The fall of Singapore was described by Winston Churchill as the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history .

In October 1944, Churchill traveled to Moscow and agreed to divide the Balkans into respective spheres of influence, and at Yalta Roosevelt signed a separate deal with Stalin in regard of Asia and refused to support Churchill on the issues of Poland and the Reparations.

Indeed, measured against today s standards, Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, and Dwight Eisenhower were comparatively authoritarian leaders.

Instead of encouraging new Churchills and Adenauers, the result might be new imitators of Hitler or Stalin.

When Ramsay MacDonald formed the National Government in 1931, Churchill was not invited to join the Cabinet.

It was for this reason that Churchill was relieved when Roosevelt was re elected in 1940.

In 1898, a mansion designed by Charles Platt was built for Churchill in Cornish, New Hampshire.

The subsequent ignominious fall of Singapore was described by Winston Churchill as the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history .

Works Elements of Natural Philosophy being an experimental introduction to the study of the physical sciences , London John Churchill, 1839 .

Churchill did not seek election to the Conservative Business Committee, the official leadership of the Conservative MPs.

In June 1940, to encourage the neutral Irish state to join with the Allies, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill indicated to the Taoiseach Éamon de Valera that the United Kingdom would push for Irish unity, but believing that Churchill could not deliver, de Valera declined the offer.

The charismatic figures of the mid twentieth century Churchill, Adenauer, and de Gaulle have no contemporary counterparts.

Some historians see his basic attitude to India as being set out in his book My Early Life (1930).

Winston Churchill in particular wished to move the war into a more active phase, in contrast to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.

This region includes two major stratovolcanoes, Mount Churchill and Mount Bona, the latter being the highest volcano in the United States.

As Winston Churchill said, the problem with committing political suicide is that you live to regret it.

Churchill is best known for his impressionist scenes of landscape, many of which were painted while on holiday in the South of France, Egypt or Morocco.

As Churchill said of the Americans, you can always rely on them to do the right thing... once they have exhausted all possible alternatives.

Churchill s famous adage that democracy is the worst political system, with the exception of all the others, has been borne out across the continent.

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.

In the fields along the route, and at the stations through which the train passed, thousands stood in silence to pay their last respects.

In a speech delivered on 19 September 1946 at the University of Zürich, Switzerland, Winston Churchill postulated a United States of Europe.