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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom Inspirational Quotes (731)

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The doctor unfortunately said I was fit.
Alec Douglas-Home
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A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.
Alec Douglas-Home
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For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.
Alec Douglas-Home
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Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
Alec Douglas-Home
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If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.
Tony Blair
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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
John Major
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The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.
Tony Blair
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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
John Major
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Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.
Margaret Thatcher
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I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.
Clement Attlee
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Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.
Ramsay MacDonald
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If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.
Margaret Thatcher
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I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.
Margaret Thatcher
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Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.
Tony Blair
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For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.
Margaret Thatcher
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We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.
Margaret Thatcher
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In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.
John Major
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When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument as we do and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then we must ask ourselves unflinchingly what is the cause of high unemployment. Quite simply and unequivocally, it is caused by paying ourselves more than the value of what we produce. There are no scapegoats.
James Callaghan
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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Margaret Thatcher
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The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.
Tony Blair
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56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.
Gordon Brown
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There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
Harold Wilson
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The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.
H. H. Asquith
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The surtax payers, having been soaked, have found a way to get out of the rain.
James Callaghan
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