A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree if you agree with him he's a statesman.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

God helps those who strut their stuff.

You can't lead people where you haven't been yet.

I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.