Quotes by Politicians - Page 16

At the end of a long introduction: You omitted perhaps one thing - that in 1974 I had a hemorrhoidectomy.
Howell Heflin
My father gave me these hints on speech making: Be sincere ... be brief ... be seated.
James Roosevelt
A good speech like a woman's skirt should be long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. I have been asked to give my address in the remaining five minutes. That I can do! Here it is: 10 Carlton Gardens London England.
Lord Balfour
We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Horace Mann
There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
Alphonse de Lamartine
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Winston Churchill
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton
We must use time as a tool not as a crutch.
John F Kennedy
Lost yesterday somewhere between sunrise and sunset two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Horace Mann
Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams waste of it will make you dwindle alike in intellectual and moral stature beyond your darkest reckoning.
William Gladstone
I must govern the clock not be governed by it.
Golda Meir
The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth and parts not with it but for the full value.
Lord Clarendon
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts bestowed for the good of the country and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
John Caldwell Calhoun
The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.
Adelbert Ames
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
We must dare and dare again and go on daring.
Georges Jacques Danton
You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.
John Adams
God Almighty hates a quitter.
Samuel Fessenden
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels
Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!
Winston Churchill
It's not worthy of human beings to give up.
Alva Reimer Myrdal
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air 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 halls. We shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.
Clare Boothe Luce
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.
Lord Byron
It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
Lord Byron
The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren
Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.
William Randolph Hearst
Never exaggerate your faults your friends will attend to that.
Robert C. Edwards
Never give in never give in never never never never - in nothing great or small large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Winston Churchill
Laws die books never.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Winston Churchill
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust
In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
F. D. Roosevelt
Neutrality as a lasting principle is an evidence of weakness.
Louis Kossuth
I love not man the less but nature more.
Lord Byron
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
Ronald Reagan
Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
Cicero
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself the wind and waves the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically but behind them is the hand of God.
Ronald Reagan
The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
Eric Johnston
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
Horace Walpole
Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
Lord Byron
A man who is afraid will do anything.
Jawaharlal Nehru
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory.
Cicero
I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough much more than I'll never need. I do it to do it. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Donald Trump
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
Ronald Reagan
Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.
Robert F. Kennedy
The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
Lord Shawcross
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
Adlai Stevenson
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
William Lowndes
Money can't buy happiness but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.
Ronald Reagan