Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity.

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.

Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth.

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.

Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.

I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.

Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.

Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.

I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

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