Winston Churchill Quotes

Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary, works on the emotions, tries to violate logical considerations by rousing a sense of personal interest and to stifle the voice of reason by awakening primitive instincts.

For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society

The system of capitalism, of the market economy, is a system of freedom, of justice, of productivity. But these three virtues cannot be separated. Each flows out of the other.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty.

Share the Wealth

Don't talk to me about socialism. What we have, we hold.

If experts were usually right, socialism would prevail.

Every Man a King, Every Man a King; For you can be a millionaire; There's Something belonging to others; There's enough for all people to share.

We’ve taken care not to penalize the wealthy but we have to redistribute some income …It is through reform that we can obtain fairness in the modern world…A reformed welfare state is the only way to obtain social justice.

Democracy and capitalism have both been hacked.

If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.

When capitalism changes, so must socialism.

Wherever democracy has prevailed, the power of the State has been used in some form or other to plunder the well-to-do classes for the benefit of the poor.

The American does not want to listen to socialism because he thinks he already has it.

Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?

Socialism and freedom are not compatible, regardless of repeated convincings.

We either go one direction, left, which would be socialism. Or right, which would be people trying to make the money themselves.

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.