WINSTON CHURCHILL'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES

Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Volume I, The Birth of Britain, with an introduction by Roy Jenkins (London: The Folio Society, 1956, 2003) ("The British thought themselves as good as Roman as any. Indeed, it may be said that of all the provinces few assimilated the Roman system with more aptitude than the Islanders. [] There was a sense o pride in sharing in so noble and widespread a system. To be a citizen of Rome was to be a citizen of the world, raised upon a pedestal of unquestioned superiority about barbarians and slaves." Id. at 31. In the twenty-first century, where is "Rome," "who are the citizens of Rome"?).

Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Volume II, The New World (London: The Folio Society, 1956, 2003)("Liberty of conscience as conceived by Cromwell did not extend to the  public profession of Roman Catholicism, Prelacy, or Quakerism. He banned open celebration of the Mass and threw hundreds of Quakers into prison. But such limitations to freedom of worship were caused less by religious prejudice than by fear of civil disturbance. Religious toleration challenged all the beliefs of Cromwell's day and found its best friend in the Lord Protector himself. Believing the Jews to be a useful element in the civil community, he opened again to them the gates of England, which Edward I has closed nearly four hundred years before. There was in practice comparatively little persecution on purely religious grounds, and even Roman Catholics were not seriously molested. Cromwell's dramatic intervention on behalf of a blaspheming Quaker and Unitarian whom Parliament would have put to death as well as tortured proves he was himself the source of many mitigations. A man who in that bitter age could write, 'We look for no compulsion but that of light and reason,' and who could dream of a union and a right understanding embracing Jews and Gentiles, cannot be wholly barred from his place in the forward march of liberal ideas." Id. at 263.).

Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Volume III, The Age of Revolution (London: The Folio Society, 1957, 2003) ("On the morning of January 8, 1815, Pakenham led a frontal assault against the American earthworks--one of the most unintelligent manoeuvres in the history of British warfare. Here he was slain and two thousand of his troops were killed or wounded. The only surviving general officer withdrew the army to its transports. The Americans lost seventy men, thirteen of them killed. The battle had lasted precisely half an hour." "Peace between England and America had meanwhile been signed on Christmas Eve, 1814. But the Battle of New Orleans is an important event in American history. It made the career of a future President, Jackson, it led to the belief that the Americans had decisively won the war, and it created an evil legend that the struggle had been a second War of Independence against British tyranny." Id. at 312.).

Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Volume IV, The Great Democracies (London: The Folio Society, 1958, 2003).