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Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.
And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.
I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.
Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose
Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party
Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.
The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.
Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.
Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.
It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest
We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations
There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.
Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.
Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.
I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.
Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice.
If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.
It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.
We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.
There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.
I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.