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Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.

Frederick Scott Oliver

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

Frederick Scott Oliver

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

Frederick Scott Oliver

Frederick Scott Oliver

Frederick Scott Oliver

Born: 1864

Died: 1934 (aged 70)

Bio: Frederick Scott Oliver, or F.S. Oliver, was a prominent British political writer and businessman who advocated tariff reform and imperial union for the British Empire.

Known for:

Ordeal by Battle (1915)
Alexander Hamilton (1906)
ALEXANDER HAMILTON AN ESSAY ON
The Irish Question, Federation Or Secession (1918)

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