Quotes by Prime Ministers

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
Herbert Asquith
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
William Pitt
It is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
Lord Paulmerston
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
Indira Gandhi
I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.
William Pitt the Younger
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter! - all his force dares not cross the threshhold of the ruined tenement!
William Pitt the Elder
You should read it though there is much that is skip-worthy.
Herbert Asquith
If I were an American as I am an Englishman while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms - never! never! never!
William Pitt
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition there.
Indira Gandhi
Where law ends there tyranny begins.
William Pitt
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
Solitude and retirement cherish grief, employment and exertion are the only means of dissipating it.
Lord Melbourne
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something.
Indira Gandhi
We have believed-and we do believe now-that freedom is indivisible that peace is indivisible that economic prosperity is indivisible.
Indira Gandhi
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
Lord Rosebery
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt
While I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church because I support it from outside.
Lord Melbourne
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
Indira Gandhi