Charles Churchill Quotes
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
Churchill, Charles. "The Farewell." The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill, edited by William Tooke, vol. 2, Little, Brown and Company, 1854, p. 116.
Defending his opposition to a League of Nations. He was instrumental in preventing the United States from joining the League of Nations which President Wilson had worked so hard to create. The Senate never ratified the treaty which Wilson had signed.
For variations on this theme see Stephen Decatur, Meyer London, Charles Churchill and Carl Schurtz
In 1761 or 1762 he became a close ally and friend with the champion of liberty of the press John Wilkes, whom he regularly assisted with The North Briton weekly newspaper. His collaboration with Wilkes thereafter earned him an honourable place in the history of parliamentary democracy and civil liberties.