Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
BORIS JOHNSONThis is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope.
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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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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can’t turn the clock back to 1904, what’s the point of being a Conservative?
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I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere.
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I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad … he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.
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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
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What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms.
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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope…
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I think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way.
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We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
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The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
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People are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.
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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
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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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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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