A fully equipped Duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and Dukes are just as great a terror, and they last longer. |
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. |
A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head. |
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. |
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. |
Four specters haunt the Poor / Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land. |
He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul |
I tell you, as one who has studied the whole situation, I don't think Hitler is a fool - he is not going to challenge the British Empire |
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers |
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers |
Liberty has restraints but not frontiers. |
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. |
Negotiating with de Valera.... is like trying to pick up mercury with a fork. |
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men |
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done |