Portable Wisdom

Author: Winston Churchill

Brief Info: British statesman, army officer and writer

Years Lived: 1874-1965

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Quotations


Democracy is Worst Form of Government

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those others that have been tried.


Liberalism is not Socialism

Liberalism is not Socialism, and never will be. There is a great gulf fixed. It is not a gulf of method, it is a gulf of principle. … Socialism seeks to pull down wealth. Liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests; Liberalism would preserve private interests in the only way in which they can be safely and justly preserved, namely by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference … Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capital; Liberalism attacks monopoly.


We are Doing our Best

It’s no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

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