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I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.

It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

Drift is the demon of democracy.

Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

The worst of being sacked is you can never find your car.

The more the planners, the worse the plans.

We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees.

We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.

Corruption never has been compulsory.