When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit

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.

Just because our friendship has changed and now we grow in different directions, does not mean that we have to grow apart.

If today is not your day, then be happy for this day shall never return. And if today is your day, then be happy now for this day shall never return.

God made us for relationships before he made us for tasks.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

Just because we can doesn’t mean we should. Just because we always have doesn’t mean we always have to. Once we know better, we should choose better.

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

I'm so much more of an East Coast girl than a West Coast girl.

I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise To fly.

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]