Soviet author Quotes

“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”

“I shall fight on, I shall fight to win.”

“We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.”

“New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.”

“While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.”

“We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that did less, and therefore did better, would strengthen its authority.”

“It's a funny old world.”

“I am not a compromiser on fundamentals.”

“Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for.”

“Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.”

“If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.”

“Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.”

“To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning.”

“You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.”

“America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.”

“Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.”

“There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.”

“I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.”

“We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.”

“For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.”

“Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.”

“There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.”

“The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.”

“In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'”

“The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all those who love liberty.”