“In a way, Churchill as man of the century would be totally appropriate. The 20th century has been the century of the state, of the welfare state and of the warfare state. And Churchill was, from first to last, a man of the state, the welfare state and of the warfare state.”
Recorded at the Mises Institute’s “Costs of War” conference in May 1994 in Auburn, Alabama: https://mises.org/library/the-costs-war
Ralph Raico (1936–2016) was professor emeritus in European history at Buffalo State College and a senior fellow of the Mises Institute. He was a specialist on the history of liberty, the liberal tradition in Europe, and the relationship between war and the rise of the state. He is the author of The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton.