Poems List

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

radio broadcast, 1 October 1939

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

speech in the House of Commons, 13 May 1940; see Byron 80:1

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[The Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

speech in the House of Commons, 12 November 1936

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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

letter, 11 November 1937

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I have waited 50 years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

of Ramsay MacDonald

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Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

on rejoining the Conservatives twenty years after leaving them for the Liberals, c.1924

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The whole map of Europe has been changed … but as the deluge subsides and the waters fall short we see the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone emerging once again.

speech in the House of Commons, 16 February 1922

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It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty’s Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

speech in the House of Commons, 22 February 1906

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Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
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