“Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.”

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.

Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

Well, there’s a lot to react against!

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.

A week is a long time in politics.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

It’s a funny old world.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Being Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd.

Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, somebody of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.

I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

I didn’t want them ever to believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn’t wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.