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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest
Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.
It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.
The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.
Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.
Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.
The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed.
Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.
It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.
Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.
In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.
One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.
Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.
Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.
We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations
There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.
Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know
I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer.
You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.
Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.
I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?
All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.
One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'
I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.
It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.
The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.
The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.
Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.
We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.
Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice.
Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.
Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’
To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.