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Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

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It's no use crying over spilt summits.

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I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

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It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

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To be alive at all involves some risk.

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If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Politician

Born: February 10th, 1894

Died: December 29th, 1986

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