Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury - Evil Quotes

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... 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

It is said,—and men seem to think that condemnation can go no further than such a censure—that they brought us within twenty-four hours of revolution... But is it in truth so great an evil, when the dearest interests and the most sincere convictions are at stake, to go within twenty-four hours of revolution?

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

People imagine that where an evil exists, the Queen, the Lords and the Commons should stop it. I wonder they have not brought in an Act of Parliament to stop unfavourable weather on the occasion of political demonstrations.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

It is the same with all efforts to root up any evil by the expenditure of money. To attach a money value to the existence of an evil, even for the purpose of extirpating it, can have no other end than that of multiplying the evil.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury