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.

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

173

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

164

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'.

142

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.

142

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

127

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

118

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

108

I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.

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