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At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.
A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.
The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.
When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.
Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.
It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.
It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.
The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.
I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am.
The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of everyone else's money.
Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.
We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.
Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.
Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.
Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.
The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
I don't care for music, I don't care for scenery, I don't care for women...I like bridge.
The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths.
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?
Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.
Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.
Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.
All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal
When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'
I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.
Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.
Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!
I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.
We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.
For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours.