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No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier.

— Austen Chamberlain

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Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.

We have a peculiar interest because the true defence of our country, owing to scientific development, is now no longer the Channel...but upon the Rhine.

Gentlemen do not behave in such a way.

On the Hoare-Laval Pact (1935)

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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