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

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.

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.

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

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Dropkick Murphys, everybody! That's a band!

My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.

I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!!

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.

We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day.

Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.