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

I’m back, and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign ‘The Mummy Returns’

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defense in favor of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.

And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Nowadays there really is no primary poverty left in this country. In Western countries, we are left with the problems which aren’t poverty

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.

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.

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

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!

Power tends to get confused with repression.

There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?

The things that I fear have no power here as I stand on this altar with you, my dear.