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1 " If you destroy a free market, you create a black market. "
― , The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill
2 " They are the most disagreeable of people. … Their insincerity? Can you not feel a sense of disgust at the arrogant presumption of superiority of these people? Superiority of intellect! Then, when it comes to practice, down they fall with a wallop not only to the level of ordinary human beings but to a level which is even far below the average. "
3 " Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. "
4 " It is better to have a world united than a world divided; but it is also better to have a world divided than a world destroyed. "
5 " If I were asked the difference between Socialism and Communism, I could only reply that the Socialist tries to lead us to disaster by foolish words and the Communist could try to drive us there by violent deeds. "
6 " No Socialist system can be established without a political police. "
7 " The vice of capitalism is that it stands for the unequal sharing of blessings; whereas the virtue of socialism is that it stands for the equal sharing of misery. "
8 " There are two non-God religions, Nazism and Communism – two peas … Tweedledum and Tweedledee. You leave out God and you substitute the Devil. You leave out love and you substitute hate. "
9 " The U.N. was set up not to get us to Heaven but only to save us from Hell. "
10 " The difference between our outlook and the Socialist outlook is the difference between the ladder and the queue. We are for the ladder. Let all try their best to climb. They are for the queue. "
11 " It is bad for a nation when it is without faith. "
12 " There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most domineering virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. "
13 " A nation without a conscience is a nation without a soul. A nation without a soul is a nation that cannot live. "
14 " Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage. "
15 " A nation that forgets its past has no future. "
16 " Nourish your hopes but do not overlook realities. "
17 " A great event is taking place here, a great event in the world’s destiny. It is taking place without injury or injustice to anyone; it is transforming waste places into fertile; it is planting trees and developing agriculture in desert lands; it is making for an increase in wealth and of cultivation; it is making two blades of grass from where one grew before. "
18 " Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library. "
19 " The whole theme of motherhood and family life, with those sweet affections which illuminate it, must be the fountain spring of present happiness and future survival. "
20 " Some Socialists see private enterprise as a tiger—a predatory animal to be shot. Others see it as an old cow to be milked. But we Conservatives see it as the sturdy horse that pulls along our economy. "
