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I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.
If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.
You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.
I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.
Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.
What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?
Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.
I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.
I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.
Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head.
A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.
Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.
In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.
Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society
Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]
My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.
Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.
There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them
I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.
Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.
I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.
England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.
Those who write off our European heritage are, at least in part, writing off their own heritage.
If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.
Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.