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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.  
A strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the ...  
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unf...  
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you a...  
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.  
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.  
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism i...  
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact th...  
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kenned...  
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by ...  
If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbi...  
If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. De...  
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a youn...  
It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falt...  
It's no use crying over spilt summits.  
Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.  
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; be...  
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.  
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.  
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it...   Success
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.  
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothi...  
Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last Nov...  
The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like i...  
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers o...  
To be alive at all involves some risk.  
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the de...  
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the ...  
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.  
You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without ...   Politics