Monday, January 22, 2018

The philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy

Winston Churchill on Socialism. From Wikiquote.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

- Speech in the House of Commons (October 22, 1945) "Demobilisation"
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Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.

- Speech (May 28, 1948) at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland, in Never Give In!: The best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches (2003), Hyperion, p. 446 ISBN 1401300561

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