36 Quotes by James Callaghan

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

The sky turned black with the flapping wings of chickens coming home to roost.

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

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

The best word to describe her was gracious. She was a wonderful lady and will be very sadly missed. I just hope he survives until the 27th of this month, when he will be 93 years old.

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?

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'.

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

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