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Lord Randolph Churchill Quotes

1849–1895 England

Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (13 February 1849 – 24 January 1895) was a British statesman.

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Also known as: Randolph Churchill

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How many more of England's heroes—how many more of England's best and bravest—are to be sacrificed to the Moloch of Mid Lothian?

One of the greatest of Romans, when asked what were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry.

Balfourism acts like a blister on Ireland and the Irish, and has the bad and good effects which such treatment generally produces. A too protracted application of the blister might do much harm.

The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

To tell the truth I don't know myself what Tory Democracy is. But I believe it is principally opportunism.

The Prime Minister [William Ewart Gladstone] is the greatest living master of the art of personal advertisement.

The Elizabethans were passionate admirers of the exotic; eager importers of the new and foreign styles in food and dress as in building.

The primary object of all government at the present moment is to maintain the Union, to maintain it not for a session or for a Parliament, but for our time.

The struggle between England and Russia at the present moment is rather analogous to a celebrated struggle which took place some years ago, and which I can just remember, between two individuals in this country—the great fight between Heenan and Sayers.

For the purposes of recreation he has selected the felling of trees, and we may usefully remark that his amusements, like his politics, are essentially destructive. (Laughter.) Every afternoon the whole world is invited to assist at the crashing fall of some beech or elm or oak—the forest laments in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire.

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