In 1963 President John F. Kennedy made Churchill the first honorary citizen of the United States. The President said of that grand old war hero, “He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.” In one of his great speeches during World War II Churchill said, “When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men’s souls, drawing them from their hearths and homes, casting away comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses that are at once awful and irresistible, we learn that we are not animals, and that something is going on in space and time, and beyond space and time, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”