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

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The struggle for power in our day lies not between Crown and people, or between a caste of nobles and a bourgeoisie, but between the classes who have property and the classes who have none.

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 a Party shackled by tradition; all the cautious people, all the timid, all the unimaginative, belong to it. It stumbles slowly and painfully from precedent to precedent with its eyes fixed on the ground.
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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
As I have said, there are two points or two characteristics of the Radical programme which it is your special duty to resist. One concerns the freedom of individuals. After all, the great characteristic of this country is that it is a free country, and by a free country I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like. That is not my notion of freedom.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
... this,—which is called self-government, but is really government by the majority,—works admirably when it is confided to people who are of Teutonic race, but... does not work so well when people of other races are called upon to join in it.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
... if our ancestors had cared for the rights of other people, the British empire would not have been made.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
... the gentleness, the concessions, the morbid tenderness of Louis XVI had only tended to precipitate his own and his people's doom, and aggravate the ferocity of those he tried by kindness to disarm.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
We are not the same people that we have been, either in our social characteristics, in our patriotic sentiments, or in the tone of our moral and religious feelings.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury