Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

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.

tell meof something fiercer than the love with which i gaze upon youof something softer than the tendernesswith which i hold you.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

One of the best ways to walk in love is to be a blessing to other people or simply to help them.

Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.

The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

These two clubs had a monopoly of the domestic honours last season.