If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.

Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet.

When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.

Let us think of ourselves not as 'yes' and 'no' Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again.

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.

I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him.

I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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