With Thanks to Mick Penn for sending this in. - Diplomacy is the art of telling peope to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
- You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
- Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
- A nation that forgets its past has no future.
- The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
- If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart; if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
- Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
- There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.
- The best argument against democracy os a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.
- The main vice of captialism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
- However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
- You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.
- We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
- I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots than have one agree with me.
- Islam is more dangerous in a man than rabies in a dog.
- In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
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