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Top 25 Edward Heath Quotes (2025 Update)

Edward Heath Quote: “A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.”

1. “A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.”

2. “Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.”

3. “Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.”

4. “The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.”

5. “Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity.”

6. “I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “Pitt the Younger was a great British Prime Minister. He saved Europe from Napoleon, he was the pilot who weathered the storm. I don’t know whether he’d have done it any better or quicker had he been married.”

7. “Pitt the Younger was a great British Prime Minister. He saved Europe from Napoleon, he was the pilot who weathered the storm. I don’t know whether he’d have done it any better or quicker had he been married.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “If politicians lived on praise and thanks they’d be forced into some other line of business.”

8. “If politicians lived on praise and thanks they’d be forced into some other line of business.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “Other countries have far greater problems than we have.”

9. “Other countries have far greater problems than we have.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “There’s a lot of people I’ve encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I’m not so sure it was a wise thing to do.”

10. “There’s a lot of people I’ve encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I’m not so sure it was a wise thing to do.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.”

11. “We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister.”

12. “This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.”

13. “I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.”

14. “There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.”

15. “I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.”

16. “I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “A ready smile concealed a firm mind.”

17. “A ready smile concealed a firm mind.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “I said it three times actually.”

18. “I said it three times actually.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.”

19. “In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.”

20. “Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.”

21. “I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “You mustn’t expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn’t show it – the population would be horrified.”

22. “You mustn’t expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn’t show it – the population would be horrified.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.”

23. “We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.”

24. “Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “I don’t think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?”

25. “I don’t think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society.”

26. “The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “Leadership is all about right and wrong.”

27. “Leadership is all about right and wrong.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government – and on me, personally, but that does not matter – by people who were collectively responsible for those four years.”

28. “We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government – and on me, personally, but that does not matter – by people who were collectively responsible for those four years.”

— Edward Heath

Edward Heath Quote: “I was delighted that by campaigning throughout England, Scotland and Wales, addressing in all 39 public meetings, I had contributed to the victory of the Conservative Party at this general election.”

29. “I was delighted that by campaigning throughout England, Scotland and Wales, addressing in all 39 public meetings, I had contributed to the victory of the Conservative Party at this general election.”

— Edward Heath

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