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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.

— 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?

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.

The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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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