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The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.

To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.

Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

I hope the Spice Girls will come back, although it may be beyond even Bob Geldof to get that to happen.

Britain must lead in Europe to intensify the fight against global terrorism and make our country safer.

The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners; we believe in turning workers into owners.

No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

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