British Politician Quotes

The only lasting solution is that Europe itself should gradually find its way to an internal equilibrium and a limitation of armaments by political appeasement.

Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian

People in this country have had enough of experts.

There is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

Every bodily process is pulsing to its own beat within the overall beat of the solar system.

Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington

[National Socialism] has survived the flames of war and the tempest of vilification because, when war has done its worst and vilification has run its entire gamut, National Socialism remains, in the final analysis, synonymous with higher man's will to survive, his instinct for health and strength, and his desire for beauty in life; and, as long as that will, that instinct, and that desire remain on this earth, the creed of National Socialism will remain, indestructible.

I dislike censorship. Like an appendix it is useless when inert and dangerous when active.

Maurice Edelman

Jesus Christ was not a conservative. That's a racing certainty.

Your Prime Minister, your MP, Theresa May, called this election about Brexit. Have we heard from her what she plans to do about Brexit? No. This is mad. On Thursday, you are going to be faced with Prime Minister May, or Prime Minister Corbyn, against twenty-seven prime ministers from the European Union. It will be a shitshow.

Lord Buckethead

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

William Ewart Gladstone

I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.

When I came here seventeen years ago and I said that I wanted to lead a campaign to get Britain to leave the European Union, you all laughed at me — well, I have to say, yow're not laughing now, are you?

Trusting in the God of our fathers and confident that our cause is just, we will never surrender our heritage.

I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.

James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon

Cheese. Shropshire Blue—it's so high in calorific content you need only rub against it, and that's enough.

On why he is so large

Denis Healey: Can he assure us there is no question of American military intervention as this could only make the situation worse?
Sir Geoffrey Howe: There is no question of that.

The Conservative Party always in time forgives those who were wrong. Indeed often, in time, they forgive those who were right.

The fact is, we're looking for a very small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.

There is a glut of chemical books, but a scarcity of chemical truths.

John French, 1st Earl of Ypres

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.

Anthony Crosland

The worst enemy of science is also the bitterest enemy of democracy, cest le clericalisme. The interests of science and the interests of democracy are one.

Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

He gave himself diligently to mathematics, which he liked "vastly." "I believe they are useful," he writes, "and I am sure they are entertaining, which is alone enough to recommend them to me."

Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet