If present dangers were to be averted there must be loyal a… - Winston Churchill

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If present dangers were to be averted there must be loyal aid from the whole masses of the people; there must be voluntary and spontaneous comradeship; and there must even be a measure of self-imposed discipline. ... was it not time that the free nations, great or small, here or across the Atlantic Ocean, should take measures necessary to place themselves in a state of security and in a state of adequate defence, not only for their own safety but also that they might hold aloft the beacon-lights of freedom which would carry their rays of encouragement to the thinker and toiler in every land?

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG OM CH TD FRS PC (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, though he was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.

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Birth Name: Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Also Known As: The pug • The Old Lion

Alternative Names: Winston Spencer Churchill • Charles Maurin • David Winter • The Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill • Colonel Warden • Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill • Sir Leonard Spencer • Sir Winston Churchill • Sir Winston Spencer Churchill • Mr Green • The Right Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill • The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill • The Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill • Churchill • Winston S. Churchill • Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill • Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

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