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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.

— Lord 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.

The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

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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.

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