For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.


Address to the inaugural meeting of the Free Trade League, February 19, 1904; Randolph Churchill Winston Churchill: Young Statesman (1967)

Winston Churchill Quotes

For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.