More from Winston Churchill

  1. The House of Commons has lifted our affairs above the mechanical sphere into the human sphere.
  2. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
  3. The honourable gentleman should not really generate more indignation than he can conveniently contain.
  4. The maxim 'nothing avails but perfection' may be spelt shorter: PARALYSIS.
  5. Variant: The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
  6. The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs. (attributed to a House of Commons speech of 1951)
  7. The further back I look, the further forward I can see.
  8. The price of greatness is responsibility.

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