I don't think modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?
Edward Heath 1988
Category: Modesty
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.
Adlai Stevenson 1956
He was defeated in 1952 and 1956. How funny....
Category: Modesty
After all, it's not every man who nearly becomes Prime Minister of England.
R A Butler 10/01/1957
After being passed over for PM
Category: Prime Minister (Office of), Modesty
We have ceased to be a nation in retreat. We have instead a newfound confidence - born in the economic battles at home and tested and found true 8,000 miles away. And so today, we can rejoice at our success in the Falklands and take pride in the achievement of the men and women of our task force. But we do so, not as some flickering of a flame which must soon be dead. No, we rejoice that Britain has rekindled that spirit which has fired her for generations past and which today has begun to burn as brightly as before. Britain found herself again in the South Atlantic and will not look back from the victory she has won.
Margaret Thatcher
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