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British Statesman Inspirational Quotes (74)

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The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
John Bright
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My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!
Ernest Bevin
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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
Ernest Bevin
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I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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England is the Mother of Parliaments
John Bright
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It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.
Ernest Bevin
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The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.
Lord Randolph Churchill
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I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.
Austen Chamberlain
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Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves
John Bright
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The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Сrown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly, I do not believe it at all.
Ernest Bevin
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If you recognize anyone, it does not mean that you like him.We all, for instance, recognize the honourable Member for Ebbw Vale.
Lord Randolph Churchill
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The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.
John Bright
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To have two Legislative Assemblies in the United Kingdom would, in my opinion, be an intolerable mischief and I think no sensible man can wish for two within the limits of the present United Kingdom who does not wish the United Kingdom to become two or more nations, entirely separate from each other.
John Bright
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Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.
Austen Chamberlain
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This item is a mere fleabite in the ocean of our expenditure.
Lord Randolph Churchill
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So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.
John Bright
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It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.
John Bright
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A cunning woman is a knavish fool.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
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Where laws end, tyranny begins.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
Richard Cobden
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A woman's noblest station is retreat.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
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Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
Richard Cobden
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