"Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive,..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.
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“O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?”
“Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.”
“Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species.”
More on Freedom
“The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.”
“God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'”
“He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.”