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.
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.
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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.
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
Love your neighbor is not merely sound Christianity it is good business.
Great men sometimes lose the reins and lose their heads. This time, let us hope that they will retain them and that when victory is assured they will sit down and reckon what the future is going to be for their countries as well as for other lands.
We are muddled into war.
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
Certainly, Hail Hitler, I say it too, for he is really a great man.
One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, 'Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isnt it true your grandfather used to peddle tinware around here in an oxcart hauled by a donkey' Lloyd George replied, 'I digress just a moment and thank the gentlemen for calling that to my attention. It is true, my dear old grandfather used to peddle tinware with an old cart and a donkey. As a matter of fact, after this meeting is over, if my friend will come with me, I will show him that old cart, but I never knew until this minute what became of the ass.'
A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts and dukes are just as great a terror and they last longer.
If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.
Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
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