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People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled 'politics'.
Douglas Hurd
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No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.
Margaret Thatcher
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It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
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No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
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Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.
C. P. Scott
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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges from the preconsciousness of babyhood and simply finds himself here, in it, in the world. That experience alone astonishes some people. What is all this — what is the world? And what are we? From the beginning of humanity some have been under a compulsion to ask these questions, and have felt a craving for the answers. This is what is really meant by any such phrase as "mankind's need for metaphysics."
Bryan Magee
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In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.
Winston Churchill
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Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking
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I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.
William Shirley
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During the days of his last illness:
If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up: if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me.
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland
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I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.
James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon
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Loopholes are not always of a fixed dimension. They tend to enlarge as the numbers that pass through wear them away.
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester
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Every bodily process is pulsing to its own beat within the overall beat of the solar system.
Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington
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The worst enemy of science is also the bitterest enemy of democracy, cest le clericalisme. The interests of science and the interests of democracy are one.
John Morley
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The socialist believes that it is better to be rich than poor, the Christian that it is better to be poor than rich.
Lord Hugh Cecil
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I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
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The homosexual Tom Driberg complaining about his wife to his friends:
She broke her marriage vows; she tried to sleep with me.
Tom Driberg
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Your Prime Minister, your MP, Theresa May, called this election about Brexit. Have we heard from her what she plans to do about Brexit? No. This is mad. On Thursday, you are going to be faced with Prime Minister May, or Prime Minister Corbyn, against twenty-seven prime ministers from the European Union. It will be a shitshow.
Lord Buckethead
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There is a glut of chemical books, but a scarcity of chemical truths.
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres
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But I must not go on singling out names. One must not be a name-dropper, as Her Majesty remarked to me yesterday.
Norman St John-Stevas
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He gave himself diligently to mathematics, which he liked "vastly." "I believe they are useful," he writes, "and I am sure they are entertaining, which is alone enough to recommend them to me."
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet
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Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.
Evan Harris
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I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.
David Steel
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Kingdoms are but cares,
State is devoid of stay;
Riches are ready snares,
And hasten to decay.
Henry VI of England
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People in this country have had enough of experts.
Michael Gove
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