Posted on 02/17/2003 1:20:36 AM PST by Knuckle Sandwich Combo
ON APPEASEMENT:
"There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety."
"How many wars have been averted by patience and good will?"
"An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping it will eat him last."
"When nations are strong, they are not always just and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong."
"Victory will never be found by taking the line of least resistance."
"I cannot subscribe to the idea that it might be possible to dig ourselves in and make no preparations for anything else than passive defense. It is the theory of the turtle."
"I never worry about action, but only about inaction."
On Neville Chamberlain: (famous weakling aka appeaser)
"He was given a choice between war and dishonor. He chose dishonor and he will have war anyway."
On Islam:
"What the horn is to the rhinoceros, what the sting is to the wasp, the Mohammadan faith is to the Arabs."
On Socialism:
"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."
"Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the State."
"Government of the duds, by the duds, and for the duds."
"No socialist system can be established without a political police."
"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy."
"It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism."
"'All men are created equal' says the American Declaration of Independence. 'All men shall be kept equal' say the Socialists."
"Some see private enterprise as a predatory animal to be shot, others look on it as a cow to be milked but a few see it as a sturdy horse pulling a wagon."
"If you destroy a free market, you create a black market."
"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."
"Socialism assails the pre-eminence of the individual."
"Is it better to have equality at the price of poverty or well-being at the price of inequality?"
"The flame of Christian ethics is still our best guide...only on this basis can we reconcile the rights of the individual with the demands of society."
On leftists:
"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."
"These very high intellectual persons who wake up every morning...see what they can find to demolish, to undermine, or cast away."
"Let them quit these gospels of envy, hate, and malice. Let them abandon the utter fallacy, the grotesque, erroneous, fatal blunder of believing that by limiting the enterprise of man, by riveting the shackles of a false equality...they will increase the well-being of the world."
On Communism:
"Bolshevism is not a policy; it is a disease."
"The day will come when it will be recognized without doubt throughout the civilized world that the strangling of Bolshevism at birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race."
The First Lord of the Admiralty in his speech the other night went even farther. He said, 'We are always reviewing the position. Everything, he assured us is entirely fluid. I am sure that that is true. Anyone can see what the position is. The Government simply cannot make up their minds, or they cannot get the Prime Minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. So we go on preparing more months and years - precious, perhaps vital to the greatness of Britain - for the locusts to eat. They will say to me, 'A Minister of Supply is not necessary, for all is going well.' I deny it. 'The position is satisfactory.' It is not true. 'All is proceeding according to plan.' We know what that means.
FDR was sick and some say unstable....Churchill on the other hand was masterful in his manipulation although he had to let the Yalta disaster slide.
Happily, Sir Winston has most recently been elected as the greatest British statesman of all time, narrowly beating out Newton and The Bard.
Don't let airheads having minimal grasp of historical fact bother you....
I like this one: "Bolshevism is not a policy; it is a disease."
I recall Michael Savage saying something similar, except substitute liberalism for bolshevism.
Churchill, like Lincoln, was so quotable on his own, he's picked up lots of apocryphal quotes over the years. In time those show up in supposedly serious sources. I suppose that's normal -- people say, "Wow, that's a great sentiment, I'll bet Churchill said that," and attribute it to him without looking it up. The next thing you know, it's in a quotations dic. 200 years from now, some scholar will sort it all out and say, "I can't find anything in his writing that he said this, this or that."
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