If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting - and whether or not we leaders agree.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neighbour's freedom to sing a different tune in his.

But, I get this feeling that if I stay close to you, I'll find what I'm looking for

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

Tools may limit the user, but the utility of tools is limited by the skill of the user.

The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.