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Scottish Politician Inspirational Quotes (19)

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The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.
James Mackintosh
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It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.
James Mackintosh
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The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex.
James Mackintosh
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We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden
Jo Grimond
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Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.
James Mackintosh
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The frivolous work of polished idleness.
James Mackintosh
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Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.
Jo Grimond
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After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying Me too to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing. The salient need of this country to produce more and much more efficiently hardly figured on the agenda.
Jo Grimond
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Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
James Mackintosh
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The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.
James Mackintosh
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The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either.
Jo Grimond
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Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
James Mackintosh
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Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
James Mackintosh
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The state owned monopolies are among the greatest millstones round the neck of the economy. Liberals must stress at all times the virtues of the market, not only for efficiency but to enable the widest possible choice. Much of what Mrs Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph say and do is in the mainstream of liberal philosophy.
Jo Grimond
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The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.
James Mackintosh
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A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
James Mackintosh
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In bygone days, commanders were taught that when in doubt, they should march their troops towards the sound of gunfire. I intend to march my troops towards the sound of gunfire.
Jo Grimond
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It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.
James Mackintosh
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(I must tell my Hon. Friend Miss Janet Fookes) that although I have always been attracted to her I have never actually dared ask her whether she would go to bed with me.
Nicholas Fairbairn