Berton Churchill

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light." Jennie Jerome Churchill, 1854-1921, Writer and Mother of Sir Winston Churchill Paul Bursey www.The20HourWorkWeek.net Read Full Story

I’m at the 25th anniversary dinner of the Sir Winston Churchill Society. It’s a posh event, held at the swank Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto. All is formal. I decided to show off a bit by wearing my Scottish outfit; no, not a kilt, but an Argyle jacket and nice green tartan trows (trousers). While my family claims descent from Scottish lairds, we don’t have the paper to prove it. We’re not even a sept of the Campbell clan, but we do claim an affinity. I betrayed the connection with my choice of the Macdonald ancient hunting tartan for the trows. But they look ... Read Full Story

The Happy Warrior: The Life Story of Sir Winston Churchill, as told through Great Britain's Eagle comic of the 1950s by Clifford Makins This book is an interesting primary source material, but I'm having some trouble understanding exactly who the target audience is. The volume is primarily a compilation of comic-book style pages from the British boys magazine ' Eagle ' from the 1950s. Pulled together into a single binding, 'The Happy Warrior' becomes a graphic-novel biography of Winston Churchill. This collection runs from his boyhood through adventures in India, Egypt, South Africa, the Western Front in WWI France, and British politics before spending ... Read Full Story

Another Winter Day in Cache Valley "People stumble over truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." -Sir Winston Churchill "No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality." — Napoleon Hill "The price of greatness is responsibility." — Winston Churchill "The democracy will cease to exist when you take from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." -Thomas Jefferson Read Full Story

tammix: Sir Winston Churchill - "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." http://ow.ly/15XO23 Read Full Story