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If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.
It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.
The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.
We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.
I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.
The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.
I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.
There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.
There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.
We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.
[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.
Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.
It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.
If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!
Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.
Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.
If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.
She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.
This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.
Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.
I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.
Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.
Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life.
The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.
The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.
A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.
The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.
Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.