Alfred Jarry Quotes

I`ve never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.

I do not think that this would be the right moment to cut people`s standard of life in terms of private consumption any further.

Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.

Society today is so organized that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert`s advice.

Let me say that of course there has been a fall in people`s standard of life. And it has fallen this year and will fall again next year.

There are no instant solutions.

I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

A leader has to `appear` consistent. That doesn`t mean he has to be consistent.

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: `steady as she goes`.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

A lie can be halfway around the world before truth has got its boots on.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.