The greatest statesman of the 20th century comments on the biggest pipsqueak ever elected President of the United States, with apologies to Jimmy Carter:
"A good many of those gentlemen who have delightful rosy views of a noble and brilliant future for the world are so remote from hard facts of daily life and of ordinary politics that I am not very sure that they will bring any useful or effective influence to bear upon the immediate course of events.”
Kinnaird Hall, Dundee, 14 May 1908
“Socialism is inseparably interwoven with Totalitarianism and the abject worship of the State…This State is to be the arch-employer, the arch-planner, the arch-administrator and ruler, and the arch- caucus boss.”
London, 04 June 1945
“The inherent vice of Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
Commons, 22 October 1945
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.”
Perth, 28 May 1948
“Socialism is based on the idea of an all-powerful State which owns everything, which plans everything, which distributes everything, and thus through its politicians and officials decides the daily life of the individual citizen.”
London, 21 January 1950
“You may try to destroy wealth, and find that all you have done is to increase poverty.”
Commons, 12 March 1947
“We shall not allow the advance of society and economic well-being of the nation to be regulated and curtailed by the pace of the weakest brethren among us. Proper incentives must be offered and full freedom given to the strong to use their strength in the commonweal. Initiative, enterprise, thrift, domestic foresight, contrivance, good housekeeping and natural ability must reap their just reward. “
Blenheim Palace, 04 August 1947
“I warn you solemnly, if you submit yourselves to the totalitarian compulsion and regimentation of our national life and labour, there lies before you an almost measureless prospect of misery and tribulation of which a lower standard of living will be the first result, hunger the second, and a dispersal or death of a large proportion of our population the third.”
Blenheim Palace, 16 August 1947
“State Management has proved, in every case where it is applied, to be cumbrous, wasteful, and incompetent. Moreover, the wage-earners in all these nationalized industries are rapidly finding out how far more flexible and comprehending compared to the all-powerful, remote and sullen control of the State was the private employer.”
Woodford Green, 10 July 1948
“Rich men, although valuable to the revenue, are not vital to a healthy state of society, but a society in which rich men are got rid of, from motives of jealousy, is not a healthy state.”
Commons, 24 April 1950
“The worst difficulties from which we suffer do not come from without. They come from within. They do not come from the cottages of the wage-earners. They come from a peculiar type of brainy people always found in our country, who, if they add something to its culture, take much from its strength.”
Royal Society of St. George, London, 24 April 1933
"A good many of those gentlemen who have delightful rosy views of a noble and brilliant future for the world are so remote from hard facts of daily life and of ordinary politics that I am not very sure that they will bring any useful or effective influence to bear upon the immediate course of events.”
Kinnaird Hall, Dundee, 14 May 1908
“Socialism is inseparably interwoven with Totalitarianism and the abject worship of the State…This State is to be the arch-employer, the arch-planner, the arch-administrator and ruler, and the arch- caucus boss.”
London, 04 June 1945
“The inherent vice of Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
Commons, 22 October 1945
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.”
Perth, 28 May 1948
“Socialism is based on the idea of an all-powerful State which owns everything, which plans everything, which distributes everything, and thus through its politicians and officials decides the daily life of the individual citizen.”
London, 21 January 1950
“You may try to destroy wealth, and find that all you have done is to increase poverty.”
Commons, 12 March 1947
“We shall not allow the advance of society and economic well-being of the nation to be regulated and curtailed by the pace of the weakest brethren among us. Proper incentives must be offered and full freedom given to the strong to use their strength in the commonweal. Initiative, enterprise, thrift, domestic foresight, contrivance, good housekeeping and natural ability must reap their just reward. “
Blenheim Palace, 04 August 1947
“I warn you solemnly, if you submit yourselves to the totalitarian compulsion and regimentation of our national life and labour, there lies before you an almost measureless prospect of misery and tribulation of which a lower standard of living will be the first result, hunger the second, and a dispersal or death of a large proportion of our population the third.”
Blenheim Palace, 16 August 1947
“State Management has proved, in every case where it is applied, to be cumbrous, wasteful, and incompetent. Moreover, the wage-earners in all these nationalized industries are rapidly finding out how far more flexible and comprehending compared to the all-powerful, remote and sullen control of the State was the private employer.”
Woodford Green, 10 July 1948
“Rich men, although valuable to the revenue, are not vital to a healthy state of society, but a society in which rich men are got rid of, from motives of jealousy, is not a healthy state.”
Commons, 24 April 1950
“The worst difficulties from which we suffer do not come from without. They come from within. They do not come from the cottages of the wage-earners. They come from a peculiar type of brainy people always found in our country, who, if they add something to its culture, take much from its strength.”
Royal Society of St. George, London, 24 April 1933
