Word: winstons
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...political leader who rivals Roosevelt in embodying freedom's fight is Winston Churchill. Indeed, it's possible to imagine a President other than Roosevelt leading America through the war, but it's nearly impossible to imagine someone other than Churchill turning the world's darkest moments into Britain's finest hour...
...Winston Churchill b) Ayatullah Khomeini c) Juan Peron d) Kemal Ataturk...
...Winston Churchill remarked that Franklin Roosevelt's life was one of the commanding events in human history. The triumph of freedom in the face of depression and totalitarianism was not foretold or inevitable. It required political courage and leadership. We now know what Roosevelt and his generation made of their "rendezvous with destiny." Their legacy is our world of freedom. If the example of Franklin Roosevelt and the American Century has taught us anything, it is that we will either work together as One America to shape events or we will be shaped by them. We cannot isolate ourselves from...
Queen Elizabeth II ( ) Martin Luther King Jr. ( ) Mohandas Gandhi ( ) Corazon Aquino ( ) Andrew Grove ( ) Joseph Stalin ( ) Charles de Gaulle ( ) Owen D. Young ( ) Ayatullah Khomeini ( ) Harry S Truman ( ) Winston Churchill ( ) Haile Selassie ( ) Wallis Simpson ( ) Richard Nixon ( ) Mikhail Gorbachev ( ) Pope John Paul...
Half a century after his death, most of us know little of Gandhi's real history or how the Mahatma in our minds came to be. Hundreds of biographies uncritically canonize him. Winston Churchill scorned him as a half-naked fakir stirring up sedition. His generation knew him as a radical political agitator; ours shrugs off a holy man with romantic notions of a pure, pre-industrial life. There is no either-or. The saint and the politician inhabited the same slender frame, each nourishing the other. His struggle for a nation's rights was one and the same with...