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Liberty Quotes by Winston Churchill
- The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe…
- There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.
- We are with Europe but not of it. We are linked, not combined. We are interested and associated, not absorbed. And should European statesmen address…
- 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…
- We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift…
- The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the…
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