politics Quotes

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.