Leader Quotes

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'.
I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
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.
There are no instant solutions.
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.
You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.
Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.
I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
A theory must be tempered with reality.
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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