Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Quotes

1847–1929 United Kingdom

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (7 May 1847 – 21 May 1929) was a British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister, also known as Archibald Primrose (1847–1851) and Lord Dalmeny (1851–1868).

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Also known as: Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord Rosebery, Rosebery, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of, Rosebury, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of

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This is not a Budget, but a revolution; a social and political revolution of the first magnitude.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colorless photography of a printed record.

Life of Pitt (1891)

It is beginning to be hinted that we are a nation of amateurs.

I believe that Liberalism is the principle in politics that neither class, nor creed, nor privilege shall hinder the progress of our natural development.

[The British Empire is] the greatest secular agency for good now known to mankind.

I must plough my furrow alone.

There are two supreme pleasures in life. One is ideal, the other real. The ideal is when a man receives the seals of office from the hands of his Sovereign. The real pleasure comes when he hands them back.

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