Bush vs. Churchill

[fear_and_greed]

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

-WSC

 

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

-GWB

[JayB]

Other Churchill Quotes:

 

ON APPEASEMENT:

 

"There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety."

 

On Socialism:

 

"If I were asked the difference between Socialism and Communism, I could only reply that the Socialist tries to lead us to disaster by foolish words and the Communist could try to drive us there by violent deeds."

 

"Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the State."

 

"Government of the duds, by the duds, and for the duds."

 

"No socialist system can be established without a political police."

 

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy."

 

"It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism."

 

"'All men are created equal' says the American Declaration of Independence. 'All men shall be kept equal' say the Socialists."

 

"Some see private enterprise as a predatory animal to be shot, others look on it as a cow to be milked but a few see it as a sturdy horse pulling a wagon."

 

"If you destroy a free market, you create a black market."

 

"The vice of capitalism is that it stands for the unequal sharing of blessings; whereas the virtue of socialism is that it stands for the equal sharing of misery."

 

"Socialism assails the pre-eminence of the individual."

 

"Is it better to have equality at the price of poverty or well-being at the price of inequality?"

 

"Let them quit these gospels of envy, hate, and malice. Let them abandon the utter fallacy, the grotesque, erroneous, fatal blunder of believing that by limiting the enterprise of man, by riveting the shackles of a false equality...they will increase the well-being of the world."

 

"Bolshevism is not a policy; it is a disease."

 

"The day will come when it will be recognized without doubt throughout the civilized world that the strangling of Bolshevism at birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race."

 

Hee hee.

[fear_and_greed]

"Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is."

-WSC

"I'm the decider and I'll decide what's best."

-GWB

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

-WSC

"Bring 'em on."

-GWB