Capitalism - the Ultimate Religion

[Existentialist]

It's not a misquote. It's a paraphrase.

And I thought you liked dictionary definitions!

misquote [ˌmɪsˈkwəʊt]
vb
to quote (a text, speech, etc.) inaccurately
misquotation n
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

par·a·phrase (pr-frz)
n.
1. A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning.
2. The restatement of texts in other words as a studying or teaching device.

I suppose a misquote can be a paraphrase, and vice versa - the two are not mutually exclusive. Nevertheless I would suggest that a paraphrase includes the quality of changing words to clarify the original meaning, not changing words to change the original meaning. Substituting the word capitalism for democracy is a bit of a change of meaning really. But if you prefer to use the word paraphrase on the basis that Churchill once said something else, then please go ahead, I'm not a dictionary fascist after all! It just goes to show that people choose the same words to mean different things according to their subjective view! The best person to tell us who's right is the one twirling faster than the drum in my spin dryer 6 feet down in a small graveyard in Oxfordshire.