Stewart Menzies Quotes

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I suppose it is true that nations get the politicians they deserve.

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White lies are to social life what oil is to machinery — a necessity for easy and beneficial results.

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We all try to obey the Ten Commandments presented... as well as the many other Biblical laws, but the only one that I have seen joyfully obeyed is 'Be fruitful and multiply,' and this has filled the world with madness, hunger, misery and disease.

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What ages us most is having time to speculate whether we are happy or not, for we usually come to the conclusion that we are not happy.

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Never allow yourself to say, 'I can't do this or that, I am too old.' If you do, your convictions will engrave themselves on your face and bring stiffness to your limbs.

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In politics, it seems, there are so many who have fish to fry, while there are only a limited number of frying-pans...

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It is a mistake to think we can make people happy in our way. Every one must be happy in his own.

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Arithmetic in politics is not much more useful than politics in arithmetic.

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When we find ourselves face to face with finance and conscience, what are we to do? For they are both charming things, but they will not mix.

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I was rather youthful in the days when I had opportunities of studying Gladstone, but I thought, as others have done, that he charmed more than convinced.

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