Winston Churchill on governmental redistribution

"You may, by the arbitrary and sterile act of Government—for remember, Governments create nothing and have nothing to give but what they have first taken away—you may put money in the pocket of one set of Englishmen, but it will be money taken from the pockets of another set of Englishmen, and the greater part wil be spilled on the way."

And this: a passage that never grows stale, but that has become especially timely — from the conclusion of Churchill’s great speech of October 5, 1938 condemning the Munich Agreement:

[D]o not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

 via Powerline.