Loud Thinking May 29, 2014 at 08:49AM
Winston Churchill
Churchill was a rebellious boy who never did well in school, even failing sixth grade. He had a lisp and a stutter.
He tried his hand at building a military and political career, but he failed at nearly every election he ran in.
In later years, he was politically isolated from even the British Conservative party he worked with, his political reputation so in tatters that he exiled himself temporarily from Parliament and the House of Commons.
But Churchill was among the first to see the dangers of Nazi Germany, and managed to become Britain’s Prime Minister at age 62 during World War II.
His steadfastness helped inspire British resistance against Hitler, all the way to the defeat of the Nazis, securing him the title of “Greatest Briton of All Time.”
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