British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.