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Monday 9 March 2009

Churchill was right......

"There is no such thing as a good tax."

"Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon."

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

"We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last."

"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is."

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy."

"You ask, What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.” You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival".



H/T M Kohl

1 comment:

LifeoftheMind said...

He spoke and wrote in good clear Saxon English, because he was not considered smart enough for the Greats course in Classics and studied English instead.

I do not want to hear a politician talk of "prevailing over an adversary." I want to hear a politician say we will "win" when we "defeat the enemy."