| Liberalism is not Socialism, and never will be. There is a great gulf fixed. It is not a gulf of method, it is a gulf of principle. ... Socialism seeks to pull down wealth. Liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests; Liberalism would preserve private interests in the only way in which they can be safely and justly preserved, namely by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference ... Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capital, Liberalism attacks monopoly.
(from a speech made after winning the Dundee by-election in 1908, quoted at the The Churchill Society website) | |
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| Something I read elsewhere reminded me that I may not have made this clear lately or to people who might be on-hand in the event of something hideous happening. So: in the event of my death, please recycle any bits of my body that you can into someone who can make use of them. Liver, kidneys, heart, eyeballs, the lot. Brain'd be nice, but I guess the surgery for that is still a year or three away.
If you can't find a donor card on me, rest assured I meant there to be one. | |
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| For handy reference, the freefone customer complaints line for the nat west is 0800 50 50 50. You can ring them on this number, free, and tell them that they are useless wankers. | |
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