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Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.
-- Chinese Proverb		 
Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors … had been unanimous in telling me that the principles and laws of the Church of Rome were absolutely antagonistic to the principles which are the foundation stones of the Constitution of the United States of America.
-- Charles Chiniquy		 
The federal criminal code currently includes more than 3,000 offenses and hardly a congressional session goes by without an attempt to add new sections.
-- Stephen Chippendale		 
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
-- Shirley Chisholm		 
In the United States, Sovereignty resides in the people, who act through the organs established by the Constitution.
-- Chisholm v. Georgia		 
What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.
-- Dr. G. Brock Chisolm		 
To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.
-- Dr. G. Brock Chisolm		 
The Act of Congress which we are impugning before you is communistic in its purposes and tendencies, and is defended here upon principles as communistic, socialistic - what shall I call them - populistic as ever have been addressed to any political assembly in the world.
-- Joseph H. Choate		 
Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.
-- Rufus Choate		 
At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions men live by. That being so, the market place is a most humane institution.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as "free education" is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
[I]n America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual in the range and effectiveness of methods employed to restrain freedom of thought... Where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the [U.S.] media.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
-- Agatha Christie		 
Democracy is essentially coercive. The winner gets to use public authority to impose their policies on the losers.
-- John Chubb		 
All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
-- Francis Church		 
Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said it is the quality which guarantees all others.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory -- victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But, it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes. The moral effect should be good … and it would spread a lively terror.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
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 himself up by the handle.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse – a little tiny mouse! – of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
There are a lot of lies going around... and half of them are true.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The price of greatness is responsibility.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I like a man who grins when he fights.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Everybody is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
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 may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.  But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: 'We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls.'
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
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 judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- a tremendous whack.
-- Winston Churchill		 


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