"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
"Definition of a politician: he is asked to stand, he wants to sit, he is expected to lie."
A female admirer quipped, "Doest it thrill you...to know that every time you make a speech the hall is packed to overflowing?" Churchill replied, "It is quite flattering, but whenever I feel this way I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the crowd would be twice as big."
"It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift."
"If you destroy a free market you create a black market."
"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."
"Men stumble over the truth from time to time,
but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
– Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
