"After a time, civil servants tend to..." - Quote by Winston Churchill

“Never let a good crisis go to waste”

“It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.”

“Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.”

“No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.”

“The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.”

“Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.”

“No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.”

“The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.”

“If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.”