The Wisdom of Winston Churchill 6

No race, country or individual as a monopoly of good or evil.

The strength and character of the national civilization is not built up like a scaffolding or fitted together like a machine. Its growth is more like that of a plant or a tree.... No one should ever cut one down without planting another. It is very much easier to cut down trees than to grow them.

Do not disband your army until you have got your terms.

Large views always triumph over small ideas.

It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as folly.

We are for private enterprise with all its ingenuity, thrift and contrivance, and we believe it can flourish best within a strict and well-understood system of prevention and correction of abuses. In a complex community like our own no absolutely rigid uniformity of practice as possible.

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.

Private property has a right to be defended. Our civilization is built up by private property and can only be defended by private property.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill: A Treasury of More Than 1,000 Quotations and Anecdotes (1994) by James C. Humes.