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My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.
Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.
Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.
This country to-day [is] the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the world.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.
Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.
The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.
Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.
Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.
Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.
If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.
For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.
I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.
I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.
No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.
Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that is no proof that parliamentary government has failed.
Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.
Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.
I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of the Liberal Party is trust in the people, only qualified by prudence.