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What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.
Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.
One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.
Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any genuine reason for existence. The important thing is to have a faith to live by, and that goes for us in this party.
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend ...
More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.
One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.
We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in the individual, his rights, and his enterprise, and rejecting the socialist panacea.
In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.
My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.
The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious.
When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".
I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.
The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.
Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.
