If Winston Churchill stood for anything at all, Winston Churchill stood for the primacy of facts. More facts: Before he was Prime Minister, before he was a politician even, Winston Churchill was a journalist. Again and again Churchill uncovered the facts about the encounters that he covered and wrote them up without fear or favor. A year later, in South Africa covering the Boer War, Churchill was captured by the Boers and then escaped, returning to England a great war hero. Winston Churchill did not.

Source: Huffington Post December 17, 2017 18:56 UTC