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The police are the public and the public are the police
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Priests are not above sublunary considerations. Priests have nephews.
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An Irishman has no sense of the ridiculous when office is in question.
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Great public measures cannot be carried by the influence of mere reason.
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There seem to me very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
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Philosophers are very regardless of expense when the public has to bear it.
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Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a people to mold its laws.
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The great art of government is to work by such instruments as the world supplies.
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No government can exist which does not control and restrain the popular sentiments.
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No man attached to his country could always acquiesce in the opinions of the majority.
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The hasty inordinate demand for peace might be just as dangerous as the clamour for war.
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There will always be found a permanent fund of discontent and dissatisfaction in every country.
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Speaking with that caution with which I am sometimes taunted but which I find a great convenience.
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There are those who seem to have nothing else to do but to suggest modes of taxation to men in office.
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There are many parties in Ireland who desire to have a grievance and prefer the grievance to the remedy.
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A cordial and good understanding between France and England is essential to the peace and welfare of Europe.
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The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.
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The longer I live, the more clearly do I see the folly of yielding a rash and precipitate assent to any political measure.
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All my experience in public life is in favour of the employment of what the world would call young men instead of old ones.
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I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.
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So far as the great majority of his audience was concerned, he had blocks to cut, and he chose a fitter instrument than a razor to cut them with.
Of Robert Walpole
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We are here to consult the interests and not to obey the will of the people, if we honestly believe that that will conflicts with those interests.
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Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?
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Of all vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty which might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most delusory and contemptible.
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As minister of the Crown…I reserve to myself, distinctly and unequivocally, the right of adapting my conduct to the exigency of the moment, and to the wants of the country.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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Born:
February 5, 1788
Died:
July 2, 1850
(aged 62)
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