“A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.”

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.

Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.

A period of silence on your part would be welcome.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.

If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.

Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.

The real test of one’s belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one’s friends but of one’s enemies.

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

There is a denial of the value of the individual.

I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.

The press lives on disaster.

Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say ‘Bless You’.

I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

That’s a heck of a lot more than any president, pope, prime minister, or potentate can say, and I wouldn’t switch places with any of them.

This is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing: Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand. But I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.

Some ministers say, ‘If you don’t repent you’ll die and go to a place the name of which I can’t pronounce.’ I can! You’ll go to hell!

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

For unhappy is the People, and their Constitution will be ever precarious, whose Welfare must depend upon the Virtues and Consciences of Ministers and Politicians.

Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.