Winston Churchill Quotes
A sheep in sheep's clothing.
Some people erroneously claim that Clement Atlee was the target of this insult. He was not according to Churchill himself.
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister (Conservative), Reference to Ramsay MacDonald
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Commenting on the presidential nomination of James K. Polk:
The Chinese government at the time was hostile to all religions and particularly so to the Tibetan Buddhists led by the Dali Lama from exile. Centuries before, 20 million Chinese were killed in one year of religious rioting by the Great Peace, religious and political terror movement-sometimes called the "Yellow Turbans”. The leader, claimed to be the Brother of Jesus Christ come to convert and reform China. See {38318} and {619520}. Chinese government leaders have been fearful of organized religious movements that were not under government control since.
The colonists did not have great support from England before the Revolution especially with science and technology were British policy was to keep the colonies dependent on the mother country. As a result many Americans had to be very ingenious in order to function and they invented many clever ways of doing things without the right tools and equipment. Under wartime conditions this served them well.
Hopkins was asked how he managed to contend with the infighting of some of the more experienced, less than ethical political types in the government:
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Churchill was also well known for his military career and as a historian, painter and writer, and among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature.
