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Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

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The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

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There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

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Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.

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He has sat on the fence so long the iron has entered into his soul.
Of John Simon

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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

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Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.

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A body of five hundred men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.
Of the House of Lords

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Sufficient conscience to bother him, but not sufficient to keep him straight.
Of Ramsay Macdonald

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I have no nest-eggs. I am looking for someone else's hen-roost to rob next year.
In 1908, as Chancellor

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

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On the 1905 Tory government:
They died with their drawn salaries in their hands.

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Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision.

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If you want to succeed in politics, you must keep your conscience well under control.

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I am making a good fight for the old country & there is no one but me who could do it.

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I sometimes wish that I were in the Labour Party. I would tear down all these institutions!

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Unless I am mistaken, by the steps we have taken [in Ireland] we have murder by the throat.

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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done and the worst is that which delays them.

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[Churchill] would make a drum out of the skin of his mother in order to sound his own praises.

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Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

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Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

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After meeting Adolf Hitler:
Führer is the proper name for him. He is a great and wonderful leader.

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A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

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Of Arthur Balfour's impact on history:
No more than the whiff of scent on a lady's pocket handkerchief.

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A politician was a person with whose politics you did not agree. When you did agree, he was a statesman.

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Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

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He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

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Anyhow, it is a different situation now to what it was then; Clemenceau had power; I shall wait until Winston is bust.

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Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

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When asked what he thought Balfour's place in history would be.:
He will be just like the scent on a pocket handkerchief.

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