Churchill on Edmund Burke (Part 2)
continued from Part 1……
More quotations on the Great Burke in Churchill By Himself:
1941, in a broadcast to America:
The great Burke has truly said, “People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors,” and I feel it most agreeable to recall to you that the Jeromes [Churchill’s maternal forebears] were rooted for many generations in American soil, and fought in Washington’s armies for the independence of the American Colonies and the foundation of the United States. I expect I was on both sides then. And I must say I feel on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean now. —BBC, London, 16 June
1940s, re the Russians in World War II:
A generation would no doubt come to whom their miseries were unknown but it would be sure of having more to eat and bless Stalin’s name.…
