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Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
I'd like that translated, if I may.
To be alive at all involves some risk.
It's no use crying over spilt summits.
Most of our people have never had it so good.
I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the next.
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.
It is a good thing to be laughed at. It is better than to be ignored.
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.
The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
It isn't those who always addressing each other as comrade who necessarily show the most brotherly feelings.
After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.
One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.
After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.
Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.
If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.
The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers
We believe that unless we give opportunity to the strong and able, we shall never have the means to provide real protection for the weak and the old.
If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.