I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.