Alan, I've got a whole collection of Churchill quotes. The guy had a way with words ...



"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

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

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

"Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room."

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

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

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

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

"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry."

"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."

"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war."


"I reject your reality and substitute my own."
- Adam Savage