Statesman Quotes

“It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.”

“More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.”

“The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.”

“Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.”

“Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.”

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

“I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.”

“It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

“In finance everything that is agreeable is unsoundand everything that is sound is disagreeable.”

“The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.”

“Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”

“Good and great are seldom in the same man.”

“Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.”

“Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.”

“I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.”

“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”

“This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.”

“During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.”

“The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.”

“One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

“There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”

“I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.”

“Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.”