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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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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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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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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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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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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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Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.
C. P. Scott
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Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one
Tony Blair
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As a result of uncertainties caused by the French referendum, massive speculative flows have continued to disrupt the functioning of the exchange rate mechanism. As Chairman of Ecofin I have tonight called an urgent meeting of the EC's monetary committee to consider how stability might be restored to the markets over the next few days.
In the meantime the Government has decided that Britain's best interests would be best secured by suspending our membership of the ERM with immediate effect. As a result, the second of the two interest rate rises announced today will not take effect.
Norman Lamont
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When I recalled how knowledge of Latin had previously decayed throughout England, and yet many could still read things written in English, I then began, amidst the various and multifarious afflictions of this kingdom, to translate into English the book which in Latin is called Pastoralis, in English 'Shepherd-book', sometimes word for word, sometimes sense for sense.
Alfred the Great
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This country is not the free-trading nation it once was. We have become too lazy, and too fat on our successes in previous generations, companies who could be contributing to our national prosperity - but choose not to because it might be too difficult or too time-consuming or because they can't play golf on a Friday afternoon - we've got to be saying to them if you want to share in the prosperity of our country you have a duty to contribute to the prosperity of our country.
Liam Fox
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A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
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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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So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.
Michael Howard
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Inconvenience arising from the operation of an Act of Parliament can be no ground of argument in a Court of law.
Richard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley
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There is no presumption in this country that every person knows the law: it would be contrary to common sense and reason if it were so.
William Henry Maule
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The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.
Norman Angell
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But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
David Ricardo
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Ideas have a radiation and development, an ancestry and posterity of their own, in which men play the part of godfathers and godmothers more than that of legitimate parents.
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
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May, queen of blossoms,
And fulfilling flowers,
With what pretty music
Shall we charm the hours?
Wilt thou have pipe and reed,
Blown in the open mead?
Or to the lute give heed
In the green bowers.
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
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Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably unequaled in the annals of the human race.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.
Gordon Brown
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