 As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound. |
| It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool. |
| If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians. |
| In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. |
| Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. |
| (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. |
| When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away. |
| No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. |
| No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. |
| I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. |
| There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch. |
| It's no use crying over spilt summits. |
| At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. |
| Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps. |
| I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy. |
| A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. |
| To be alive at all involves some risk. |
| We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. |
| He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. |
| Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living. |
