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The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.
I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to.
Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.
So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.
I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.
Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.
Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.
When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.
And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.
To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day.
If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.
The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.
There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.
Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.
I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.
Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.
I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism".
Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.
There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.
Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.
The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.
Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.
No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.
For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.
If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.