Churchill could lift himself up with the best of them...
"Don't not lift as I say; lift as I do"
Without Winston Churchill the NHS would not exist.
In 1943, on March 21st Winston Churchill broadcast his Plan for Post-
war Britain,"echoing his own previous goals of 1908 and 1924, and drawing,
as he had done in 1908, on the ideas of William Beveridge: it was a report
by Beveridge that now served as a blueprint for the new scheme."
"In his broadcast Churchill spoke of the need to establish a National
Health Service on 'broad and solid foundations', to provide national
compulsory insurance 'from cradle to grave', and to ensure far wider
educational opportunities and 'fair competition' so extended that Britain
would draw its leaders from every type of school and wearing every kind of
tie'. Quoted from Martin Gilbert's "Churchill: A Life". Page 742.
In a subsequent broadcast on June 13th, 1945, Churchill stressed the
constructive aspects and aims of Conservatism, and elaborated on the
Coalition Government's Four-Year Plan prepared by Beveridge and made
public two years earlier, for social insurance, industrial injuries
insurance, and a National Health Service 'to be shaped by Parliament and
made to play a dynamic part in the life and security of every family and
home'. Martin Gilbert, "Churchill: A Life." page 847
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