Statesman Quotes

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Never, never, never give up.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.