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 JOHNSONHe thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it – a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.
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It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness.
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You are part of our Great British family.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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People are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.
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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. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.
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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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I think it’s absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.
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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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It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.
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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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The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what’s going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.
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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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We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth-and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans.
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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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