Turbulent times often cause Western opinion leaders to seek out appropriate Winston Churchill quotes. Perhaps a few of Sir Winston’s observations would be useful to President Obama in the aftermath of the midterm elections as a weak economic recovery and problematic actors abroad threaten to cloud his prospects for re-election in 2012. On confiscatory taxation: “The idea that a nation can tax itself into prosperity is one of the cruelest delusions which has befuddled the human mind.”