The difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.
BORIS JOHNSONCan I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can’t now remember what any of them were.
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Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I’m afraid a job destroying engine.
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Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism – that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.
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The difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.
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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
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He wished that Britain had ‘a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today’. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!
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Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
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Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It’s not. On the contrary, it’s a massive opportunity for this country.
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Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It’s time for a rethink, and the Tory party – the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth – is where it’s happening.
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I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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I’m no communist. I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
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The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
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