The Making of Churchill
We cannot stand still with feet of clay. We must resurrect the best of the past to restore stability, and more importantly, honor.
Then we must look ahead and judiciously choose how far we "should" go as opposed to going as far as we "can" go.
I think the below quote on Churchill from this piece in the New Yorker indicates he would agree with my sentiments,
"Churchill’s real legacy lies elsewhere. He is, with de Gaulle, the greatest instance in modern times of the romantic-conservative temperament in power. The curious thing is that this temperament can at moments be more practical than its liberal opposite, or than its pragmatic-conservative twin, since it rightly concedes the primacy of ideas and passions, rather than interests and practicalities, in men’s minds. Churchill was a student of history, but one whose reading allowed him to grasp when a new thing in history happened. "
Then we must look ahead and judiciously choose how far we "should" go as opposed to going as far as we "can" go.
I think the below quote on Churchill from this piece in the New Yorker indicates he would agree with my sentiments,
"Churchill’s real legacy lies elsewhere. He is, with de Gaulle, the greatest instance in modern times of the romantic-conservative temperament in power. The curious thing is that this temperament can at moments be more practical than its liberal opposite, or than its pragmatic-conservative twin, since it rightly concedes the primacy of ideas and passions, rather than interests and practicalities, in men’s minds. Churchill was a student of history, but one whose reading allowed him to grasp when a new thing in history happened. "
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