Famous Quotes - Tags - Prime Minister
- ... from Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare... More
- ...I want to see a film, they send the Israeli army reserves to escort me! What kind of life is... More
- ...I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half... More
- A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn’t believe is right because... More
- A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle,... More
- A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man. More
- A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a... More
- A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country... More
- A steady patriot of the world alone,
The friend of every country but his own. More
- A week is a long time in politics. More
- America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it’s tragic... More
- As far as criticism is concerned, we don’t resent that unless it is absolutely biased, as it is... More
- As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the... More
- At home you always have to be a politician. When you’re abroad you almost feel yourself a... More
- Away with the cant of “Measures, not men!”Mthe idle supposition that it is the harness and... More
- Biography should be written by an acute enemy. More
- Die, my dear doctor! That’s the last thing I shall do! More
- Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. More
- Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure. More
- Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this... More
- Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom. More
- Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless... More
- Five hundred men, ordinary men, chosen accidentally from among the unemployed. More
- Four spectres haunt the Poor—Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to... More
- Give me th’ avowed, th’ erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet—perhaps may turn his... More
- His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for... More
- How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?... the America I’ve known is... More
- How could Southern Ireland keep a bridal North in the manner to which she is accustomed? More
- How marvellous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men’s hands; cemented... More
- I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end. More
- I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end... More
- I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate. More
- I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife. More
- I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number... More
- I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me. More
- I had reconciled myself to a life without marriage or children for the sake of my career. And... More
- I hate the whole race.... There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I... More
- I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars. More
- I owe nothing to Women’s Lib. More
- I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air. More
- I shan’t be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver. More
- I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of... More
- I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country. More
- I thought that a Jewish state would be free of the evils afflicting other societies: theft,... More
- I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. More
- If Germany is to become a colonising power, all I say is, “God speed her!” She becomes our... More
- If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight. More
- If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done. More
- If you don’t believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.... Decency is very good.... More
- In matter of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too... More
- In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. More
- India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. More
- Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are... More
- Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible. More
- Is not our role to stand for the one thing which means our own salvation here but with which it... More
- It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same. More
- It is not necessary that every time he rises he should give his famous imitation of a... More
- It was then that the iron entered my soul. More
- It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the... More
- I’ll stay until I’m tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it. More
- Jaw-jaw is better than war-war. More
- Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good. More
- Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but... More
- Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. More
- Men of genius are not be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are... More
- Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers’ suffering or dying in connection with... More
- Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species—it is the tigress and lioness in... More
- My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side... More
- My father was a statesman, I’m a political woman. My father was a saint. I’m not. More
- My generation, dear Ron, swore on the Altar of God that whoever proclaims the intent of... More
- My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to... More
- My objection to Liberalism is this—that it is the introduction into the practical business of... More
- Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This... More
- No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions—he had money as well. More
- No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor or Foreign Secretary—not the top jobs.... More
- Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle. More
- Not only [are] our states ... making peace with each other,... you and I, your Majesty, are... More
- Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical. More
- One of the things being in politics has taught is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. More
- Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be “too clever by half.” The probability is... More
- Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath. More
- People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My... More
- Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. More
- Power tires only those who do not have it. More
- Power? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there. More
- Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. More
- Should there be maniacs who raise the idea, they will encounter an iron fist which will leave no... More
- Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less. More
- Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save... More
- That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong. More
- The cocks may crow, but it’s the hen that lays the egg. More
- The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them. More
- The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very... More
- The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could... More
- The Landlord is a gentleman ... who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks... More
- The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision. More
- The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named... More
- The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting... More
- The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism. More
- The white heat of the technological revolution. More
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