Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Quotes
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An emotion will shoot electrically through a crowd which might have appealed to each man by himself in vain.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
I wish the English army may be equal to all the work his peace-loving policy has given it.
Of gladstone
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
The witness of history is uniform to this, that Nemesis may spare the sagacious criminal, but never fails to overtake the weak, the undecided and the over-charitable fool.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
... the central doctrine of Conservatism, that it is better to endure almost any political evil than to risk a breach of the historic continuity of government.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
When great men get drunk with a theory, it is the little men who have the headache.
On political theorists
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
