The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

It doesn't hurt to get more education.

So, if anyone ever tells you no, of anyone says your voice isn't important or your dreams are too big, remember these women. They persisted and so should you.

Without the spirit of gratitude, no amount of blessings would activate the feeling of happiness in one's mind.

When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone.

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June - and in it are my friends - every one of them.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

Whoever want my spot can play me one-on-one for it.

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