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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
The world has gone through tremendous change recently; both nationally andinternationally.
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.
Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.
They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.
You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.
There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.
Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty.
I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.
We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.
I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.
Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home
I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.
A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.
If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.
My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.
The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.
It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.
Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.
It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.
Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?
It's nice to keep in touch - besides, it's the only place in London where you can park a car.
The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.
(Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved.
How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.
The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.