You don’t win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean – power over people, power to the State.
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
