"A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head."

"He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul."

"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."

"What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in."

"What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics."

"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics."

"The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps."

"A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman."

"Liberty has restraints but no frontiers."

"We are muddled into war."

"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done."

"With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation."

"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired."

"Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men."

"Diplomats were invented simply to waste time."