 Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. |
| What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. |
| There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. |
| What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. |
| A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. |
| Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. |
| You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. |
| Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. |
| The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. |
| A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head. |
| Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. |
| We are muddled into war. |
| With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. |
| Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men. |
| The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. |
| He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. |
