Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Winston Churchill, Dec 24, 1941

An address to the American people from the White House:

“I spend this anniversary and festival far from my country, far from my family, yet I cannot truthfully say that I feel far from home. Whether it be the ties of blood on my mother's side, or the friendships I have developed here over many years of active life, or the commanding sentiment of comradeship in the common cause of great peoples who speak the same language, who kneel at the same altars and, to a very large extent, pursue the same ideals, I cannot feel myself a stranger here in the centre and at the summit of the United States. I feel a sense of unity and fraternal association which, added to the kindliness of your welcome, convinces me that I have a right to sit at your fireside and share your Christmas joys.

This is a strange Christmas Eve. Almost the whole world is locked in deadly struggle, and, with the most terrible weapons which science can devise, the nations advance upon each other. Ill would it be for us this Christmastide if we were not sure that no greed for the land or wealth of any other people, no vulgar ambition, no morbid lust for material gain at the expense of others, had led us to the field. Here, in the midst of war, raging and roaring over all the lands and seas, creeping nearer to our hearts and homes, here, amid all the tumult, we have tonight the peace of the spirit in each cottage home and in every generous heart.

Therefore we may cast aside for this night at least the cares and dangers which beset us, and make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Here, then, for one night only, each home throughout the English-speaking world should be a brightly-lighted island of happiness and peace.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world.

And so, in God's mercy, a happy Christmas to you all.”

- Winston Churchill.

It was a long hard struggle.

Remember him. He saved us all.

He was one of the greatest Americans of all time, made an American citizen by a special act of Congress.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...o-oval-office-as-donald-trump-settles-in

Churchill bust in Oval Office again as Donald Trump settles in.

"Here, then, for one night only, each home throughout the English-speaking world should be a brightly-lighted island of happiness and peace."

Sounds like a racist, bigoted, White nationalist. And why didn't he dedicate a portion of his speech to the LGBTQI population?? I'm calling the Hate Police....

/sarc

He was also American by way of his American mother.

I have a bit different take on Sir Winston.

IMO he was all about preserving the Empire and preserving the ruling class.

The populace didn't want to hear about endeavoring to persevere. They wanted to hear about ways to feed, clothe, and house their families. If WWI did nothing else, it taught average Englishman that the ruling class maintained their privilege on the back of tens of thousands of commoner dead. They weren't at all in tune with the 1939 Expeditionary Force getting them into another blood bath, right or wrong.

Churchill was desperate to get the USA involved to save his Empire, and the Japs obliged him.

Talk about a backbone - all of free Europe & the world owes that man for standing fast against the Nazis.
We will never see his like again.

RIP Winston.

Churchill understood much that many fail to see, or refuse to see today.



In an article in the Illustrated Sunday Herald on February 8, 1920, Winston Churchill asserted::
“There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistic Jews. It is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others. With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are Jews"

Peace on Earth. Goodwill to ALL men.

Thank you Jesus. Hitler, Mao, Stalin, etc appreciate that. Me, I'll stick with common sense and righteous retribution.

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to you, Girlhunter.

You forgot Kwanzaa, you racist bastard.

When, are you planning to start ?

When you learn to use an apostrophe correctly. Girlhunter out.

You meant "comma-ment" correctly?

Good tidings to all.

I admire Churchill for his flaws as a young man and later. He difinitely grew wiser and was a great leader. Didn’t take him long to figure Hitler and Stalin out. I wish more people had listened before it was too late. His bust resides in Trump’s White House for a reason. MAGA

I think we have his better in Donald Trump. He is fighting unconventional warfare in WW3 to save us all from the NWO illuminati cabal who controls almost all except the Marines and military intelligence.

He is fighting more than flesh and blood. He is fighting the spawn of the evil one, Satan, Lucifer, the snake who has led the world astray to separate Him from His.

I've read a few biographies of Winston Churchill. He was a fascinating man, and a true hero. However, did you know his family was concerned he was going to renounce Christianity and convert to Islam?


Churchill and Islam - Daily Telegraph

Much of this is dead nuts on the money.....

However he was a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt and was among the very few that believed that Hitler was talking of what he actually believed in Mein Kanph. Churchill acted on it and Chamberlain didn't.....as a human being was as flawed as any of us but as a statesman was an international hero.

He was right when he said that we could help him fight the Nazis and if we didn't would have to fight them alone.....it may not have set well but was absolutely correct.

What Churchill did had some flaws but none of them as horrible as Roosevelt allowing McCarthur to invade the Phillipines when it could have just been bypassed.

Yes....you're right....Churchill wasn't flawless by any means.....but he did what he had to do.....lets give him that much!