| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 15 |
| AUTHOR: | Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (18741965) |
| QUOTATION: | We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | WINSTON CHURCHILL, lecture, Cleveland, Ohio, February 3, 1932.Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 18971963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 5, p. 5130 (1974). Churchill was referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression. |
| SUBJECTS: | Affluence |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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