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Alexis de Tocqueville - and he was talking about England at a time when most people couldn't vote, the class system was much stronger than it is now, and social morals were far more strict than they are now.
All those fears proved to be unfounded. The English welfare system grew greatly, but the capitalists were never overthrown, nor ever even in serious danger. Slight adjustments to all of those things made things work out fine. The England I saw in July seemed to bear out the recent Wall Street Journal assertion that in many ways now London is supplanting New York as the world's financial capital.
Winston Churchill hated Hitler and Stalin, and fought them both. He also championed welfare for the truly poor as a way to prevent such diseases from taking hold in England. Surely we should be broad-minded enough to see that people need both morals and meals....
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