TRP's 20 worst sentences

[Keith]

Here's four of the twenty:

Now, those of fascistic disposition - or merely those among us who  
remain all too ready to justify any government action, whether right  
or wrong - will immediately point out that this is prewar thinking,  
and that the moment enemy bombs begin to fall on one's homeland,  
altering the landscape and producing casualties among friends and  
neighbours, all this sort of thing, really, becomes irrelevant, if  
not indeed subversive. With the homeland in danger, strong leadership  
and effective measures become of the essence, and if you want to call  
that fascism, very well, call it whatever you please, no one is  
likely to be listening, unless it's for the air raids to be over and  
the all clear to sound. But the unseemliness of an argument - let  
alone a prophecy - in the heat of some later emergency, does not  
necessarily make it wrong. One could certainly argue that Churchill's  
war cabinet had behaved on occasion no differently from a fascist  
regime, censoring news, controlling wages and prices, restricting  
travel, subordinating civil liberties to self-defined wartime necessity.