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This, Mr. Emmot, is a war Budget. It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness.

— David Lloyd George

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A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

The British System of Government (1965)

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

A free religion and a free people in a free land.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

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