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Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.

I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.

I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man.

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.