Friday, April 26, 2013

Paging Ralph Raico: Winston Churchill to Appear on £5 UK Notes

Concept for banknote featuring Sir Winston Churchill 



MarketWatch reports:
Sir Winston Churchill is about to get into the wallet of almost every British citizen. The Bank of England on Friday that the former prime minister, who steered the U.K. through World War II, will adorn new £5 notes from 2016.
Ralph Raico would not be surprised:
When, in a very few years, the pundits start to pontificate on the great question: "Who was the Man of the Century?" there is little doubt that they will reach virtually instant consensus. Inevitably, the answer will be: Winston Churchill. Indeed, Professor Harry Jaffa has already informed us that Churchill was not only the Man of the Twentieth Century, but the Man of Many Centuries.

In a way, Churchill as Man of the Century will be appropriate. This has been the century of the State of the rise and hyper-trophic growth of the welfare-warfare state and Churchill was from first to last a Man of the State, of the welfare state and of the warfare state. War, of course, was his lifelong passion; and, as an admiring historian has written: "Among his other claims to fame, Winston Churchill ranks as one of the founders of the welfare state." Thus, while Churchill never had a principle he did not in the end betray, this does not mean that there was no slant to his actions, no systematic bias. There was, and that bias was towards lowering the barriers to state power.
Read Raico's important speech about Chrchill, here.

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