A fully equipped Duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and Dukes are just as great a terror, and they last longer.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.
Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.
If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.
It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.
Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
The Landlord is a gentleman... who does not earn his wealth.
The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.
The question will be asked whether five hundred men, ordinary men, chosen accidentally from among the unemployed, should override the judgment of millions of people who are engaged in the industry which makes the wealth of the country.
There are always clouds in the international sky. You never get a perfectly blue sky in foreign affairs.
There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
We cannot feed the hungry with statistics of national prosperity, or stop the pangs of famine by reciting to a man the prodigious number of cheques that pass through the clearing-house.
Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite; who made ten thousand people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?
You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.
You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.
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