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Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!
You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.
The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.
A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.
We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.
There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.
Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!
It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.
There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.
The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.
I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.
There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.
Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.
Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.
There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do.
I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.
[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.
No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.
I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.
Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.
When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.
I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.
I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.
I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman.
Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.
The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.
That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few.
We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?
The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out.
That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.
I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.
Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.
I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.
Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.
Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.