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What happens to all the laws placed on the statute book? If half the hopes of their promoters had been realised, would not the millennium have arrived ere this?

— Stanley Baldwin

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To me, England is the country, and the country is England.

The political career properly viewed is really a kind of Ministry.

There is a saying as old as the Greeks that it is more important to form good habits than to frame good laws.

It is to moralise the world that we all desire.

A free trade unionism is a bulwark of popular liberty.

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