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The Government were on the look-out for a good, strong business man, with some push and go in him, who will be able to put the thing through.

— 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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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.

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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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